Robert Adams, a key figure of the “New Topographics” movement, has used a variety of medium- and large-format cameras throughout his career—always chosen to support his clear, quiet, and morally urgent vision of the American West. Core Cameras & Formats 4×5" Field Camera (Nagaoka) He often employed a typical large-format 4×5 film field camera by Nagaoka , renowned for detail and tonal control in his early, more formal work . These rigs were mounted on tripods and used for carefully composed, static landscapes. Nagaoka 4x5 Hasselblad Medium Format Adams shifted to a Hasselblad medium-format camera (6×6), frequently using an 80 mm lens, especially for street-adjacent or intimate subjects . Pentax 6×7 SLR For his 1973 Guggenheim-funded projects like Denver and The New West , he adopted the Pentax 6×7 medium-format SLR , providing a 6×7 cm rectangular frame for more expansive landscape compositions. Pentax 6 x 7 Fujifilm 6x9 Robert Adams also commonly uses t...
"The camera is an instrument that teaches people to see without a camera" - Dorothea Lange