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Lightweight Large Format: Tachihara Fiel Stand 45

Photography doesn't get better than this: a Tachihara Fiel Stand 45 (no it's not a typo) with a Fujinon W 135mm f5.6 lens and Fomapan 100 b+w film at Balmoral Beach in Sydney Australia on a crisp and bright winter morning... This camera is an early first version (there are three) made some time in the 1970s, it's marked with number "15" stamped into the base. Tachihara made and sold lightweight wood 4x5, 5x7, 8x10 and 11x4 (plus older 4¾x6½ half-plate and 6½x8½ whole-plate) cameras in Japan from the 1960s. Outside of Japan, Tachihara cameras were sold as Wista, Osaka, Zone VI and Calumet brand names. Other Japanese manufacturers made wood field cameras that share similar designs and construction and are functionally equivalent: Nagaoka, Anba Ikeda, Asanuma Shokai, Okuhara and Hasemi to name a few. All are based on designs made by Deardorff of Chicago USA in the early 1920s. A common complaint heard about the Tachihara is that they are cheaply made and lack rigidity. They were for many years one of the cheapest new 4x5 cameras available, so yes they were cheaply made in that respect, but they are of excellent quality and the low cost was achieved through simplicity. Regarding rigidity, they are about as rigid (or not) as every other light weight wood field cameras ever made, and more rigid that some ultra-lightweight designs (like the Nagaoka). If you want something that can handle large, long and heavy lenses then use a metal field camera like a Linhof Technika, Wista 45 or Toyo Field 45A. Their additional rigidity comes with up to double the weight of the Tachihara, so choose carefully. The original single-coated Fujinon W 135mm f5.6 lens conveniently fits inside the folded camera making the kit very portable: note that a similarly sized lens will also fit inside a metal Wista 45 and Linhof Technika, but not a Toyo Field 45A. Most 105mm to 135mm and some compact 150mm lenses will fit. Those keeping score will remember that I have been getting really terrible results with my b+w developing: nasty marks and unevenness on the long sides and sky area, so bad I took a break for a couple of months. I suspected that the marks were from my film handling, in particular my habit to run my (bare naked) fingers along the sides of the sheet to be sure the film was seated in the holder correctly. For these images I loaded the film with clean hands (also, before handling the developing chemicals) wearing white cotton gloves being very careful to handle the film by the edges and not touch the film surface. They were processed WITHOUT a pre-wash – I was pre-washing in an attempt to get even development but it didn't seem to make a difference – using KODAK HC-110 1:39 for 10 minutes at 21˚C, not the 20˚C I normally use. I'm pleased to say that I am very pleased with the results and am confident they can be reproduced. (My stop bath is now bright green.) For those interested in details: I'm developing the film in a Poilot P2550 tank (Chinese-made JOBO 2550 clone) and two Poilot PL45 reels. Each reel takes six sheets of 4x5 and the P2550 tank holds two reels, so I can process twelve sheets at a time; in this case I processed ten sheets with 600ml of chemistry (15ml of HC-110 concentrate) using a manual roller base also made by Poilot, rotating the tank about once every 2 seconds and reversing direction every 10 seconds. The 2550 tank can also process six 5x7 sheets, three 6½x8½ or three 8x10 sheets on the appropriate reel. UPDATE 2023-11-03: I just noticed I spelt "Lightweight" as "Leightweight" in the video introduction!