New 4x5 Harman Titan Pinhole Camera

TBY spotted this last week I think. If I've got some spare cash I might take the plunge. It looks quite nicely made and the fact that it folds up fairly small it would make a good choice for some more remote landscape destinations.
 
I did, and tbh if I'd got the gear to handle 5"x4" Dev / Print / Scan I'd have been all over it like a tramp on chips, but as it was I just flagged it up for those of you that are geared up for it.

Didn't think anyone had spotted my post to be honest :)
 
TheBigYin said:
I did, and tbh if I'd got the gear to handle 5"x4" Dev / Print / Scan I'd have been all over it like a tramp on chips, but as it was I just flagged it up for those of you that are geared up for it.

Didn't think anyone had spotted my post to be honest :)
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I'd spotted it then got distracted by work, but it looks a cracking entry into the world of 4x5. I've just got the facilities to dev 4x5 now but will need to sort out a way to scan them, I'll have to keep an eye out for a cheap scanner.
 
You've got a scanner, stop and fixer TBY so all you need are some paper trays, some direct positive paper and some paper dev.
 
Wouldn't I need somewhere relatively light tight, that's big enough to set up the paper trays as well Kev? - I'm afraid I'm a changing-bag merchant at the moment, and there's really nowhere I can make serviceable as a darkroom :(

The idea appeals, but at the moment, I'm getting out to shoot so little, I've promised myself I'm not buying any hardware until I run a film through one or two of my existing cameras :shrug:
 
I don't really see the point of this. A 5x4 pinhole camera is the easiest thing in the world to make: it's just a box and a pinhole on the front. I knocked one up in about 10 minutes last summer but I've only really shot a few test sheets with it
 
raathistle said:
I don't really see the point of this. A 5x4 pinhole camera is the easiest thing in the world to make: it's just a box and a pinhole on the front. I knocked one up in about 10 minutes last summer but I've only really shot a few test sheets with it
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Ah, but could you knock one up with a bellows, that accepts a 4x5 film holder and fits into a small box that would fit in your coat pocket?
 
To the extent that that Walker is pocketable, yes. The cone is not bellows but a rigid cone, so its 75mm focal length means it's 75mm from the film plane, so not exactly pocketable. Whas more, by using a sliding box system you have an inifinitely variable focal length camera, which if you marked with some common focal lengths you can pre-work out the f number

I just dont see the point, but it does look nicely engineered
 
I feel you may be right, I don't think my pockets are big enough, I still want one though:lol:
 
Looks to be in stock now at Silverprint. I would have liked it better if there was a shutter release.
 
The whole point of 5x4" was to be totally unable to move at anything but a snail's pace because you had the camera, the lens plates, the million film backs plus the massive tripod, before you had to faff around with Schiemflug and remembering where you'd put the focussing loupe :):)
 
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