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Thanks Mark.

I guess it's time for more daft questions... What coverage is actually required for 10x8 - the 240 symmar is 336mm, does that give much room for movements? The 210 SA is 500mm! (and way out of my price range) What determines whether a lens can be used on 5x4 or 10x8, is it purely down to coverage? (...

Not seeing that $30 BIN, either it sold or I'm crap at searching...

Thanks for the response Ian.

I think a 240 will probably be quite sufficient.

Dealers are charging about 70 for 8x10 DDS's from what I can see!

OK, so I'm probably going to get the 8x10 conversion kit for my P2. What sort of price should I be paying for used fidelity DDS's? Also, given that much of my shooting will be enviro portraiture, I figure I need to be operating at the normal to wide end of things, am I looking at around a 210mm lens...

So, given that we may be able to correlate the film with the envelopes, should we be requesting peak to return the envelopes too - are they willing to do that? Or should we record the information locally (bit of a pain)?

I'd be interested to hear how you get on with this.

I'm looking out for a 10x8 metering back conversion kit for my p2, got to be worth a punt for the fun of it!

Well, I ponied up for a Peli 1650 - I can get all my medium format + other gear in it too: means my wife might stop nagging me to tidy my clutter up!

Also on order is a Blackjacket Mark II, thanks for the recommendations there!

Loaded up the rest of the box into holders. I'm not too convinced that the film will be great anyhow, it was the last box of Porta 160NC that Jessops in Solihull had that I picked up on a recent business trip.

Where's a good place to buy 4x5 colour neg? 7DayShop?

Finally shot some film - just 2 sheets. Hope I exposed them correctly

I lug my Cambo around in a large 1620 Peli Roller Case. But only to get it to a studio :) I've been looking at a 1650... I quite fancy an 8x10 conversion kit too just not sure it would fit in the peli - I guess I should shoot some 4x5 first off! On a separate note, I took a look at your website ton...

How do you transport your P2 (assuming you shoot with it outdoors), sinar case, peli case, big backpack, sherpa?

Found the solution to the rotated front standard!

http://www.largeformatphotography.info/ ... ostcount=4

For the rail twisting, you do have the standard positioned along it so that the keyway locates in the groove on the standard clamp? Yes. This keyway should keep both front and rear standards aligned with very little rotation possible. It's only a nominal clearance to allow sliding along the rail un...