[LargeFormat] Ladders and Cameras

[Clive Warren]

At 7:59 am -0700 2/2/02, Karl Wolz wrote:
>I know a guy in Phoenix who is doing this and also swimming pool
>installations (we have a ton of them here).  He finally broke down and
>bought a Hasselblad ArcBody for the speed and volume.  He stands on top of a
>ladder and mounts the camera on the ladder also.  He seems to always use
>pretty wide lenses.


EMail from my ISP has just come back on line after a very effective 
denial of service attack - took 'em out for 12 hours!

What Kark had to say about ladders set me off on a train of thought 
as I often find myself perched up in some rather unusual positions - 
although perhaps not  as unusual as some of you; thinking about the 
water department acrobatics!

A ladder would be a very useful device to keep in the back of the car 
- hey only photographers can do this and get away with it....  The 
interesting aspect of this is whether to use a tall tripod or the 
ladder to mount the camera. Can a ladder really be made stable enough 
to take a LF camera? Shutter speeds would probably need to be 
relatively high to make it feasible.

The most wacky solution goes up on the f32 web site if you can supply 
photographic proof :-)

Cheers,
        Clive