When you buy a film or digital SLR camera, it is packaged with a lens from the same manufacturer. You will probably, however, use your view camera with a lens made by a different company and a shutter from a third.
Selecting a lens, or a set of lenses, for your view camera requires more care and knowledge than for any smaller-format camera. Large-format lenses are among the most expensive objects in any photographer’s studio and the array of possible choices can be intimidating, but it is just this variety that makes the view camera an ideal professional tool.
If you are already a serious user of smaller cameras, it will seem strange to you that none of the manufacturers of large-format cameras also makes lenses. ...
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