[LargeFormat] Wisner and Ebony Field Cameras

[Clive Warren]

At 04:26 13/01/02 +0000, Pete Caluori wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>I know you're asking about Wisner and Ebony cameras, but from your 
>requirements perhaps you might want to take a look at Canham as well.
>Canham's bellows and camera design make easy work of using short lens' and 
>they have a generous bellows.  I use a 72XL on the 4x5, with standard 
>bellows and get plenty of movement.  I've also used the same camera with a 
>Fuji 450C.
>
>Good luck Clive!

Thanks for the suggestion Pete. I did have a quick look at the Canham web 
site and the cameras have a fairly unique approach to the folding stuff 
(metal rather than money).  Is your Canham the all metal or wood/metal 
camera?  It seems from the web site that the version with some wood is a 
5x7/4x5 and also accepts a 4x10 back - well that''s interesting....

The other thing that I like about the camera is the way that the metal 
parts function to achieve bellows extension. The one thing I do not like 
are the fastening knobs, but I guess that could be changed easily enough. 
How do you find it for stability when racked out to near max. bellows 
length? It seems a bit larger than some of the competition, I guess from 
being a modular 5x7/4x5.

Presumably it has a rotating back, but didn't see any mention of this on 
the web site.  Also, does the bed fold up into the camera?

Cheers,
            Clive