Amund
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Digital is nice but film is like having sex with light.
Amund
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Digital is nice but film is like having sex with light.
This illustrates the 4x5 reducing back. Sometimes we want to use the LF movements but shoot a small format. Well Chamonix makes a 4x5 reducing back with a Graflok reception for various films that I'll be testing.
So here's the adapter with a carbon fiber protector over the ground glass:
Here's the ground glass and the composition guides for different formats:
Here's the Graflex 220 6x6 rollfilm adapter for using 120 film.
A perfect fit! Well it's not surpising saince Hugo went to the trouble of getting them to fit it to this actual rollfilm holder. Thanks so much!
Last, here's one small issue:
The 4x5 Polaroid adapter cannot go in straight because it needs an extra 5-7mm to clear the wood frame. Normall on a 4x5 camera, this would be to the side of the camera. The simple solution is to accomodate the Polaroid holder bulbous end by increasing the outside depth of the 4.2"x4.2" frame holding the Graflok setup. This is actually a minor issue for me right now since, my "Polaroid" for checking the shots is the 5D attached to an adapter which I'll discuss later. Still, I want to use 4x5 Polaroids for some projects. Let's see what is possible for a fix for this.
Also I am set up for 8x10 Polaroid. Now that is real Polaroid, but unfortunately very expensive.
Asher
my keyboard is wet.....
Chamonix is a small shop with half dozen craftmen. All its cameras are handmade. It has no plan to expand its capacity even the demand for its products is getting bigger everyday.
Can Chamonix make a 8x10 camera under 1.6K? Surely it can. But it would be a different camera with parts ourtsourced and mass produced, with materials less expensive and labor less intensive. That camera WILL produce equally good images, since camera is just a box with a lens to catch light. One day we may just make such a camera, but that time has not arrived yet.
One thing I am quite certain is that Asher wouldn't have waited so long and would not have such exquisite pleasure looking at it and taking pictures of it and caressing it with his impatient hands.
We frequently see other cameras on the used market. Time will test the affection of Chamonix users for their cameras. But there is one thing I know: Asher is not going to sell this 8x10, even you dangle a check of $3,000 in front of his face. Not now. He is still in his honeymoon.
Am I right, Asher?
I talked to Dick Phillips last week and he was getting ready to send out the *last* batch of 8x10 Explorers (@$2600 ea). The last Compact II's went out months ago--so Phillips 8x10's are out of production. The Wehman seems like an interesting machine, but I believe the Chamonix is a more refined camera. The nicer of the two Shen Hao 8x10's sells for $2K, but it's still heavier than the Chamonix. I'd also love a lower priced Chamonix 8x10, but the cost doesn't seem completely out of line considering the features and quality of the camera. I do think they could sell a lot more if they could hit the $2K mark.
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