Someone Should Have Warned Me....

[AutumnJazz]

The Carbon Infinity is beautiful in my opinion. Dream camera for me...

[Ole Tjugen]

The Carbon Infinity is beautiful in my opinion. Dream camera for me...

http://cgi.ebay.de/Sinar-Deardorff-H...1%7C240%3A1318

Here's an unused (!) one...

[Martin Miksch]

Ole got one from that bay 2 or 3 years ago^^

[ki6mf]

The low end, in price only, wood field cameras Tachihara, Chamonix, and Shen Hao do just about everything that the more expensive wood cameras with lots of money left over for lenses! You rarely see these for sale on E Bay which indicates what people think about them. Personal Favorite is a Shen Hao! Put your $$$ into good optics!

[Mark Stahlke]

WARNING
Do not look at this web site.

[walter23]

So true Ken. I just bought a 8x10 Deardorff with a 8x10 back & 4x5 with 4 lenses, 24 4x5 holders and a ton of un-opened film for around $900 from a funiture photographer that went digital a couple of years ago. Pretty good deal I think.

Jesus.

[Turner Reich]

Shen Hao probably has done more to advance the use of LF photography than any other recently. The price is low, great entry user or general use, it brings LF to many who couldn't get a decent new camera. Used equipment is OK but to get a new camera that works right out of the box speaks volumes for its success. It's hard to say just how many have been sold but it's probably a very large number. If film photography is to continue it needs equipment like this. Sure a Carbon fiber camera is nice but you don't need a micrometer to do carpentry.

[walter23]

That Carbon Infinity is kind of a horrid looking thing if you ask me...

[Ole Tjugen]

... Sure a Carbon fiber camera is nice but you don't need a micrometer to do carpentry.

That's what I thought too, until I got my Carbon Infinity. The "infinite" movement capability and tuneable rotation axes make the camera truly "transparent", in that the camera never gets in the way if the image you're working on. It's like all movements are applied directly to the image on the ground glass without the camera needing to be adjusted.

[Mark Sampson]

Too bad only 50 or so Carbon Infinity cameras were ever made. Perfection... but you can't have one.