Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: JV on October 25, 2014, 10:55:05 pm
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Seems like a pretty cool Kickstarter project:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1436129614/the-intrepid-4x5-camera-an-affordable-large-format
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Looks like total junk to me
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Affordable large format camera? What the heck!?!?
Go to KEH or eBay and get an entire system from Sinar, or Horseman for $500 bucks that would've been worth $10,000 in the 90's.
I bought my entire Horseman 4x5 LS system with bellows, lenses, everything I need to shoot film AND digital, for well under $1,000. The camera itself was less than $500.
Or buy a NEW Chamonix F1 with asymmetric tilts for $1,000. It's a beautiful camera.
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Affordable large format camera? What the heck!?!?
Go to KEH or eBay and get an entire system from Sinar, or Horseman for $500 bucks that would've been worth $10,000 in the 90's.
I bought my entire Horseman 4x5 LS system with bellows, lenses, everything I need to shoot film AND digital, for well under $1,000. The camera itself was less than $500.
Or buy a NEW Chamonix F1 with asymmetric tilts for $1,000. It's a beautiful camera.
Well, the guys clearly state that they are looking for an affordable non second hand camera and £129 is still less than $1,000...
I don't shoot large format and most likely never will but I am always glad when I see initiatives like these that aim to keep film and film cameras alive...
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Affordable large format camera? What the heck!?!?
Go to KEH or eBay and get an entire system from Sinar, or Horseman for $500 bucks that would've been worth $10,000 in the 90's.
I bought my entire Horseman 4x5 LS system with bellows, lenses, everything I need to shoot film AND digital, for well under $1,000. The camera itself was less than $500.
Or buy a NEW Chamonix F1 with asymmetric tilts for $1,000. It's a beautiful camera.
I agree.
The costly part of Large Format is not the gear (if bought used) but the Film, Processing and Scanning.
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Sorry if I came off angry, or I was directing anger towards you, JV. I'm not, and I wasn't.
If the camera looked at least as nice as a Chamonix, it would be fine. But there's so much used pro gear out there that's so cheap, in perfect shape, and ready to be used.
You can definitely get a basic Cambo SC series 4x5 for $150, Sinar F for under $200, Toyo G studio cameras for less than $150, and more.
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Sorry if I came off angry, or I was directing anger towards you, JV. I'm not, and I wasn't.
If the camera looked at least as nice as a Chamonix, it would be fine. But there's so much used pro gear out there that's so cheap, in perfect shape, and ready to be used.
You can definitely get a basic Cambo SC series 4x5 for $150, Sinar F for under $200, Toyo G studio cameras for less than $150, and more.
Robert,
You didn't come off that way at all. No need to apologize.
Being not familiar with Large Format gear I am surprised and in a pleasant way that there are many (also new) cheap options.
And I agree with you and Ken that at the end of the ride the few bucks more that you pay for the gear does not matter that much.
Joris.