Discussion on equipment selection for entering large format for the first time

Large frames are divided into 45, 57, 8 10, which is unusually large.

If you want to play comfortably, the smallest 45 is better and lighter.

Large format machines are structurally divided into single track and double track. Monorail has a larger and more flexible range of axis movement, but its volume is larger, so it is usually only suitable for shooting in the studio, and it is basically convenient to take out for travel. ......

There are various folding machines on the double track, which can be taken out after folding. Good brands such as Lin Hafu Xianna Yajia are more expensive (individual monorails of Xianna are not expensive), as well as second-line machines such as Constellation, Vista, Knight and Graffiti, as well as domestic products such as Freshman, Shen Hao and Shamma.

Except for the three expensive machines, the rest in China are brand new, and those in Japan and the United States are second-hand, but everyone's price is 4-5 thousand. Of course, this is just the fuselage. If you are lucky, you can find some cheap products such as graffiti capture machines, and some bodies and lenses are only 3 thousand. ...

For the lens, a 150mm F5.6 made by Schneider Germany or a Rotundus made by APO (with shutter No.0 and lens plate) costs about 3,000 yuan, which is of course second-hand ... equivalent to the header (or slightly wider than the header).

The characteristics of large-format lenses, the titles around 140- 160 are now cabbage prices, even hundreds of yuan! But once it is a wide angle less than 90 or a medium-long focal length greater than 180, the price will soar sharply;

Then I especially recommend Nikon's large-format lens, which is cost-effective. 180mm lens is only about 2000, and the price of cabbage is high.

Nikon's main SLR lenses are expensive to sell, but as long as they are "not doing business" such as enlarger lens and industrial lenses, the cost performance is very high;