[LargeFormat] Lensboards on the road

[Hornford, Dave]

Jim/Michael,
Thanks. I'm not worried about the weight of the lensboards - rather the
volume of a lens mounted on a lensboard.
I have a starting limit of ~80 liters of space - and as the largest, and
the dedicated backpacker, I get to carry everything that no one else
will/can. In the family's opinion the ability to eat fresh baked
chocolate cake or a pizza trumps any of my photographic gear. After my
minimalist gear and the families I'm down to 10 liters of space. So I'm
trying to scrimp on volume.

A lens is a nice compact item, with the lensboard it isn't. The shape is
down-right awkward.

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Brick [mailto:jim@brick.org]=20
Sent: April 6, 2002 3:48 PM
To: largeformat@f32.net; largeformat@f32.net
Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Lensboards on the road


You are not saving anything by not keeping lenses on lens boards.
Fiddling=20
with mounting lenses on lensboards out in the field would not be
something=20
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=20
significant. Save your sanity. Carry only mounted lenses. And you will
be=20
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=20
>lens is a very bulky object taking up to much of the limited space in=20
>my pack, but even at my best I'm not all that clean after living in my=20
>tent for a few days, and it is even possible to drop things -  so I'm=20
>concerned about the remounting process.
>
>My current thinking is to put each lens in a Domke wrap and take along=20
>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=20
>payment on one of them -Sironar 180mm  Copal 1
>-Fujinon 450c or Nikkor 300m will be a Copal 1 when acquired
>
>Regards Dave


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