Hi Dan,
It is. But a beautiful L bracket hand built wood monorail 4 X 5 that includes a Docter Optics 250mm Tessar lens, Berlebach tripod, tripod head, and a beautiful hand built camera suitcase; I believe it also includes a Polaroid 545i (?), 4 Fidelity 4 X 5 Holders, Dark Cloth, Large Format Handbook- Plaubel, construction diagrams, and magazine article about the camera???.
Rich
It is also a masterpiece, in the original meaning of the word!
Pretty, but too expensive for me. So my pretty, inexpensive cameras will have to do.
This from the man that last bought a Carbon Infinity???!!!!Originally Posted by Ole Tjugen
It is also a masterpiece, in the original meaning of the word!
Pretty, but too expensive for me. So my pretty, inexpensive cameras will have to do.
Rich
I "last bought" a pre-anniversary Speed Graphic. Inexpensive at $56, but maybe not so pretty.This from the man that last bought a Carbon Infinity???!!!!
The Carbon infinity is pretty, and pretty inexpensive compared to this camera!
It might go well in a brutal shag-carpeted, mylar wallpaper, 1970s-style dream setting. It lacks the subtlty of a really nice Ebony or even a Nagoka Ikeda. It is entertaining -- and well crafted -- kitsch, and an ironic satire on Linhof's designs.
Yes, but the Carbon Infinity was a beautiful used piece of art work with a cracked GG.
Rich
I still use the cracked GG, and I haven't replaced the missing spirit levels either. I figure mine could well be the only CI showing clear signs of use - most of the others have never been unpacked, I suspect
Everything is backwards when Architectural Digest comes with a large format camera to take pictures OF a large format camera.
Furniture is...well...furniture, and cameras are cameras.
The V11 is as close as I'll ever get to combining the two.
I see a window of opportunity here---- build a Bender, buzz out a circassian walnut lensboard, give the whole enchilada a piano finish sell it on German ebay.... and move to easy street!
It really is a beautiful piece of wood (and metal)working but so is a V11 'dorff (plus you get all those acres of gg to play with!)
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"---EB White
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