>>2868222They do also come in different grades of speed. I think it's divided between "fast","medium", and "slow", or something like that.
Finally, about your camera: It might be a huge pain, yeah. My lumbering Cambo monorail is essentially unmoveable without a car. It's fragile enough that I pack it with a moderate amount of padding, which I would deem necessary. Including a few lenses/lensboards and the tripod, it was too big to fit in my huge hiking backpack.
Even if yours manages to pack down well, and it isn't obnoxiously heavy, you may find it unwieldy. Carrying around a monorail camera, reassembling and then disassembling for each shot, can feel tedious. Monorails are awesome, and much more capable of movements (a big part of what makes LF unique and useful) than other LF cameras. The trade off is that, excepting the most expensive ones, they tend to be very impractical for outdoor photography.
If you don't have a car, and don't intend to shoot in studio more often than elsewhere, I would suggest you sell it and replace it with a field camera, maybe a technical. Field cameras are the ones that fold up into a neat little box or stack.
Something like a Crown Graphic or a Toyo 45 or Wista might be more suited to your desires. There are also really sturdy old wooden beater field cameras for cheap that are very functional, under brand names like Burke and James.
For extra info you can go to places like
largeformatphotography.info/forum, or
APUG.org. Be warned that the former is a bit of an old men's club. This results in some occasional encounters with unfriendly and rigid-minded folks who are abrasive to newcomers.
There are also lots of posh young professional snapshit meme photographers, who pick up LF to increase their self-reported "cred". Despite their lack of experience they tend to have the money and the ego to project crazy elitism about LF too. Watch out for them.
