Thanks, makes sense both business-wise and in general. I'll check their website to see how one might pre-order if possible.
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Thanks, makes sense both business-wise and in general. I'll check their website to see how one might pre-order if possible.
Darn! Wish I had followed this sooner, would love to have one. Checked the Travelwide site and no mention of pre-ordering, at least not yet. Took their suggestion and signed up for the news letter. I sure hope there is a second run.
P.S. Should anyone getting one out the first batch would like to sell it, for whatever reason, let me know.
I found my Angulon, yay! And along the way I also came across this lens that I rescued from somewhere. It only works with a cable release and doesn't need to be cocked. It's a 105mm, but is there a chance it might be made to work on the Travelwide? If not, anyone have ideas where else it might work? I know only what it has on it for info.
I don't think the 105mm Tominon covers 4x5 at infinity. Sorry...
Bethe, O-n-F is right. The thing is a tessar type optimized for shooting above 1:1. Even if it were a garden variety f/4.5 tessar type, it still wouldn't cover 4x5. I like me tessars but they has their limits.
I re-ran the numbers recently, and we could actually do 250 at a time. We wouldn't need to pre-sell all 250, since (although it may not seem like it now) we do have some profit margin built in. We have about 6000 people on our mailing list, and get multiple daily requests to purchase a camera, so I think we could finance another run in probably a day or two. But I want to wait to ship this first batch first, so we know how to calculate shipping costs for future runs.
Once we do the first run of 250, it will help to finance the parts for another run. So that should be the last preorder needed to bootstrap us into monthly production. Looking forward to it!
That's great news! I was worried that the pain and angst of this process (not to mention the whining) might have scared you guys off from continuing. Glad to hear that the future is now. I like Randy Moe reminding us that you don't need a ton of film or holders. One of the things I've always liked about shooting 4x5 is that I don't take a ton of shots and can keep up with my photographic production. With the TW I can get a few shots off in places or times when I normally wouldn't be able to.
Oh well. And I was wondering that as well. I know exactly what this lens was going to be used for, though it never was. It came with a Polaroid holder for pack film, so I'll guess that it would cover the area of FP100C equivalent. I scored both as they were gathering dust because the lab went digital. Since it was going to be used to photograph gel electrophoresis plates, it wouldn't have been in use for long anyway 'cause they stopped doing those, too.
So, I wonder what else I can do with it...
Last edited by Winger; 5-Sep-2015 at 20:43.
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