>>4378706Rear standard movement will usually produce Perspective shift. Front standard manipulates focal plane.
If you're doing studio type work or macro work a monorail is going to be what you want. Sinar f2 is a fantastic and inexpensive beginner option. It's light enough you could sort of bring it hiking if you wanted as well. Monorail are very simple cameras, so just about any brand in your price range is good, BUT sinar has the best accessory ecosystem out of any camera ever, so I always recommend them. The F2 can be had for around 300 dollars.
Field camera is much more compact, but less movements, so it is ideal for hiking and landscapes, decent for macro. Portraits don't need much movements so a field camera is a good option if that's your focus. People love the allure and beauty of a wooden view camera, so you may get more out of your subject than with an ugly cube like the sinar f2.
Linhof makes the best metal field cameras, but they are heavy and somewhat expensive. Deardorf is very pricey, but a beautiful camera. Chamonix is like deardorff. Wista fields are decent, and more affordable but lack the rigidity for more precise work.
Alsooooo you can buy a mount that let's you use your digital camera instead of film if you wanted to practice. A fair warning about doing so is that basically all LF lenses used on digital will produce softer than normal images because they don't channel the light properly for digital and are not designed to be as sharp as 35mm lenses. Here is a test shot using a modern top of the line rodenstock non-digital LF lens. Basically uncropped.
