Keith, Sadly, Ebony Cameras shut down in 2018 but here's an archived 2017 version of their website: https://web.archive.org/web/20170813101043/http://www.ebonycamera.com/ The various PDFs at the bottom are worth downloading while you can. The 45SU is a non-folding field camera, an idea that Ebony pioneered, and that Chamonix continues to make with a couple of their offerings. The "U" means asymmetric rear swing and tilt, which is rather confusing at first, but once you get used to it, works really well. A bit too esoteric to explain in a bike group, but one of the PDFs explains it. The PDF catalog does assume you understand how view cameras work. There are lots of resources online if you're wondering about view cameras, including good youtube videos. I like Mat Marrash's and Ben Horne's youtube channels.
Plenty of modern camera backpacks have tripod straps, which oddly wasn't always the case (thus why the Photo Backpacker was born about 20 or so years ago). Drew On Friday, August 9, 2024 at 8:41:23 PM UTC-7 Keith P. wrote: > Drew, > > This is awesome. > Beautiful 4x5 camera that I would like to know more about. > > Good on you for transporting it by bike too. > I have been working on doing this with my medium format camera with > limited success. > > Tripods present particularly prickly problems. > > I need to figure out more lashings. > > Thanks for posting! > I’d love to see some of your resulting images. > k. > > On Aug 9, 2024, at 3:11 PM, Drew Saunders <drew.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > OK, I know the theme is carrying cameras, mostly film cameras, on rides, > but here's how I bike with a rather large camera. I only take this setup up > to 2-3 miles, so it's clearly riding to photograph, not carrying a camera > just in case I want to photograph. > > <IMG_7068.jpeg> > <IMG_7069.jpeg> > <IMG_7071.jpeg> > <IMG_7072.jpeg> > > > So, what's in that rather large backpack? > > <IMG_7073.jpeg> > <IMG_7075.jpeg> > > > That's an Ebony 45SU 4x5" large format film camera. Like the Quickbeam, > it's from 2008, but since a lot of people assume that a wood and leather > camera must be ancient, I like to tell them "it's an oh-eight" and let them > guess the century. Hint: The metal bits are titanium, so it's not that old! > > I have the Photobackpacker (a.k.a. RPT, and the guy fully retired > recently, so, like the Ebony, it can't be bought new any more) modified > Kelty backpack and Photobackpacker system to carry the camera and lenses. I > sometimes carry up to 6 lenses, but today went on an "all wide" excursion, > carrying my 65mm, 80mm, 125mm and 135mm lenses, but didn't end up using the > 135. For those of you who are wondering "what's the 'crop factor'?" well, > it's complicated to compare a 2:3 ratio (24x36mm) to a 4:5 ratio > (96x120mm), but 3.5 is good enough, so those are all pretty wide lenses. I > like to choose a few lenses for each excursion. I have, let's just say, > more than four lenses. Possibly way more than four... > > The big side pocket carries the film holders and is sized for the sadly > out of production Quickload/Readyload holders and film. The Tripod is a > Manfrotto 441 (not sure what the current equivalent would be) with a rather > heavy Manfrotto 410 geared head. > > Here's the 125 in use: > > <IMG_7078.jpeg> > > > Extremely eagle-eyed observers may notice that I swapped to the bag > bellows. Most of you are thinking "bag what now?" > > I probably should get an electric cargo bike some day. > > Drew > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/547ab3a7-7ae4-4f5b-a4b2-4a192ba2d56fn%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/547ab3a7-7ae4-4f5b-a4b2-4a192ba2d56fn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > <IMG_7068.jpeg> > <IMG_7069.jpeg> > <IMG_7075.jpeg> > <IMG_7072.jpeg> > <IMG_7071.jpeg> > <IMG_7078.jpeg> > <IMG_7073.jpeg> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/4f61e35a-66b0-4686-a3fa-fb962073fbc5n%40googlegroups.com.
