[LargeFormat] Lensboards on the road

[Jim Brick]

You are not saving anything by not keeping lenses on lens boards. Fiddling 
with mounting lenses on lensboards out in the field would not be something 
that I would want to do. The weight difference between a few lens boards 
already mounted vs a wrench to mount and unmount lenses would not be 
significant. Save your sanity. Carry only mounted lenses. And you will be 
able to quickly change focal lengths when needed.

Jim


At 04:05 PM 4/6/2002 -0500, Hornford, Dave wrote:
>For those of us who venture off the beaten track with your LF gear what
>do you do about lens & lensboards?
>
>Do you have each lens mounted to a lensboard? Change them in the field?
>What do you do to protect them?
>
>I am thinking of a couple of week-long backpacking trips. A mounted lens
>is a very bulky object taking up to much of the limited space in my
>pack, but even at my best I'm not all that clean after living in my tent
>for a few days, and it is even possible to drop things -  so I'm
>concerned about the remounting process.
>
>My current thinking is to put each lens in a Domke wrap and take along a
>pair of lens boards (Copal 0 & 1)
>-Fujinon 75mm   Copal 0
>-Fujinon 90mm   Copal 0
>Yes I know they are close, one may not get packed, but they were both a
>very good deal and selling the old Calumet provided a respectable down
>payment on one of them
>-Sironar 180mm  Copal 1
>-Fujinon 450c or Nikkor 300m will be a Copal 1 when acquired
>
>Regards Dave