A couple more cool factoids about my camera…one - that its super rugged (the plater said something like Rockwell 65 hardness, but I have not verified this). On a very cold December a few years back, I was invited by the summit crew to spend a week on the top of Mt. Washington (NH) - “the home of the world’s worst weather,” where I was able to test my camera in this extreme environment. Here is a photo of my camera, after I’d left it on the summit for about two hours, during which time it became coated with rime ice (sublimated like frost onto its surface):
Thing is, the camera was still perfectly operable, and its streamlined curvy shape helped to mitigate the otherwise deleterious effects of the bane of large format photographers - wind! The combo of the camera’s form, plus that the bellows are very thin and lightweight (so that they basically just flit around on their own without moving the camera), combined with the camera’s ruggedness - makes it possible to photograph in some pretty extreme environments.
And that gray thing hanging off the back of the camera is a viewing hood which I’d custom made out of duct tape, as my (more typically used) “dark cloth” became a sail, which made things impossible. My duct-tape version spills the wind quite nicely.
At any rate…here is a photo taken with my ice-encrusted camera:
Edit: Peter, thanks for the earlier sentiment. About the only other time I had a thread attract any attention here was for the title itself: "Engine Out Equals Floppy Tranny?" After I'd dropped the engine from my 944 prior to rebuilding it...I'd noticed that the tranny had become, well - floppy! All became clear when I later dropped the tranny itself - and there was the flexible rubber mount!