CARBON INFINITY CAMERA 5"X4"

[Jim Cooksey]

Looking at some of these old posts about the Carbon Infinity 4x5.....one can't help but dream of a ULF camera of such construction - anyone for a 9lb 12x20? It's only money, after all!

[Steve Hamley]

The Carbon Infinity was quite heavy, somewhere about 7 pounds IIRC, so there would be no 9 pound 12x20.

Cheers, Steve

[Steve Barber]

The Carbon Infinity was quite heavy, somewhere about 7 pounds IIRC, so there would be no 9 pound 12x20.

Would you believe 9 pounds, without the heavy English leather zippered case that came with it?

[Lightbender]

it was also extremely expensive, wasnt it?

[Martin Miksch]

He owns one, or maybe owned or maybe I am wrong^^

[Steve Barber]

The translation from the French is a little strange, calling a camera a "room" for example, but the pictures are excellent and you can get the idea of the Carbon Infinity camera from this link:

http://translate.google.com/translat...language_tools

As to the cost of it, I have seen both $6,000 and $6,500 given as the initial price, however I have not found anything that gives any figures regarding actual retail pricing of the camera when "new" that are definitive. I do not know whether those figures represent actual prices at which cameras were offered and sold or just "suggested" retail list. What the run of 60 cameras actually brought, at wholesale and new retail, isn't discussed anywhere I have found. The only prices I have seen admitted to were either deeply discounted or for used cameras and considerably less than $6,000.

[d.s.]

All I can say is WOW, The ultimate 4x5 camera.
I'd love to have one.

I wonder what happened to the patterns and tooling?

Think about the "sinking feeling in the pit of the stomach" that other camera manufacturers must have had when that thing hit the market.

Just musing...

[Steve Hamley]

There wasn't any "sinking feeling". At over $6K and 7+ pounds, it wasn't much competition.

Cheers, Steve

[Ash]

Newton Abbot? My exhibition will be just down the road from there.

EDIT: I think Ole might have shown me this camera when I visited him, but I can't remember for sure....

[Armin Seeholzer]

Yes Ole has one but its not his only one;--))))


Cheers Armin