[LargeFormat] Help getting a camera

[Clive Warren]

At 09:38 02/04/02 +0200, Betsy Schneider wrote:

>I have recently moved to Trondheim, Norway and am desperate for the use of a
>monorail camera with at least a 20 inch/ 50cm rail and a 90mm lens.
>
>While in graduate school in California I made my work using a fully extended
>4x5 Cambo monorail with a 90mm Schneider lens and strobes to do extremely
>close up work on moldy fruit and body parts. The results were wonderful. I
>now have a perishible item which I cannot take out of Norway (I suppose I
>could drive it to other parts of Scandinavia). I will need the equipment for
>no more than a week, but I have absolutely no idea where to find it to rent
>or borrow.
>
>Does anyone know either a) a place in Norway (Trondheim?) where they rent LF
>equipment? or b) a place in Europe where I could rent and have it mailed?
>
>Betsy

Hello Betsy,

If the need is urgent then renting from Calumet may be the answer - you 
will pay a fair bit for hire of equipment and the shipping if they offer an 
International hire service. I guess that the perishable item will not wait 
for an EBay purchase or scanning the used equipment market. I think you may 
be surprised by the good deals out there right now and the total cost may 
even be cheaper than hiring when return shipping costs are considered.

Cheers,
            Clive