FWIW, I am no expert, but my local photocenter guru has a collection of thousands of cameras dating from day one through the present and he's used most of them.
http://www.photocentertroy.org/insid...scenes-11.html
When he looked over my Chamonix 045n-2, he basically told me that it was one of the finest made 4x5 portable view cameras he's seen at any price. He then rattled off a number of other brands at 2-3 times the price and his opinion was that the Chamonix was better designed and built than any of them.
Again, I'm no expert but I am VERY happy with the camera's quality and functionality.
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