Carbon Infinity 4x5

[Eduardo Aigner]

http://www.galerie-photo.com/carbon-infinity.html

Has anibody see this camera?? I do not speak french...

[darr]

http://www.google.com/language_tools

useful free tool for translating different lanuages

[Lee Hamiel]

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.galerie-photo.com%2Fcarbon-infinity.html&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&safe=off&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

[Lee Hamiel]

Sorry

Thought it would show up as a link

[Lee Hamiel]

page (http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.galerie-photo.com%2Fcarbon-infinity.html&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&safe=off&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools)

[Brian Ellis]

Google on the exact phrase "carbon infinity camera" and you'll see a good bit of information.

[Chris_6172]

Where can one of these be purchased?

[Mark Sampson]

Long out of "production", IIRC, fewer than fifty were ever made.

[CXC]

One popped up on ePay within the last few weeks, didn't get any bids at all.

[Chris_6172]

How much was the starting bid?

[Terence McDonagh]

It was a beautiful camera, but expeeeeeeeeensive. Here's a page with photos of it:
http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=008x2H&tag=

[Donald Brewster]

And heavy.

[Chris_6172]

Yeah, that was one thing that shocked me. Why would I want to spend several thousand dollars on a carbon fiber and titanium camera that weighs twice as much as a wooden camera?

[Terence McDonagh]

My understanding from a friend who got to use one for a while was that it was quite a bit more rigid than a wood field camera. Not enough to make me, or anyone I knew, buy one, but that was the idea; wood field camera portability and the rigidity of a studio monorail. That and it just looked so cool. The fit and finish on it were pretty nice. The example I saw was silky smooth, especially compared to the Toyo CF I own.

[Bill McMannis]

Norman McGrath included the Carbon Infinity on his list of cameras when choosing equipment for architectural photography in his book Photographing Buildings Inside and Out. He mentioned the camera had a lot of potential.

[Michael Gordon]

You've got to love that translation:

with a EOS 1 DS a pulling of 60 * 90 cm implies to print with 115 dpi, which is not at all sufficient to obtain "crusty" pullings.

Personally, I like my pullings as crusty as I can get them.

This looks like the perfect camera for a gearhead.

[Thierry Schreiner]

Hello,

Just for those interested,

Christoph Greiner in Germany has a Carbon Infinity for sale for 2.725 Euros including the leather carrying case.

Best regards from France

http://www.greiner-photo.de/gebraucht%20used.html

[Steven Nestler]

It sounds like an interesting camera, but not interesting enough for me to give up the Wisner. The one camera I've seen that really looks attractive in every way is the Layton. I've tried John Layton's camera in prototype form, and it's amazing. He designed the camera from a working photographer's point of view, and has addressed just about every complaint I can think of. I hope they're in production soon.
Here's the link to his site: http://www.laytoncamera.com/

Steven

[Chris_6172]

Yeah, that is a pretty neat camera. I specifically like the way the focus control has been designed. I don't know if I will be spending $4000 anytime soon though.

[o. revolt]

i found a carbon infinity 4*5 on ebay ... maybe the same ?

with reflex viwfinder and bag bellow !

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7601554980

revolt.

[Chris_6172]

He can keep the reflex viewer. I have one of those I want to sell. I wonder what the reserve is?

[Bob Salomon]

Most of the Carbon Infinity cameras were purchased by Ken Hansen. He or Photo Gizzmmo might still have one. They are in NYC.

[Chris_6172]

Why would he have purchased a bunch of these cameras? Does he have a camera shop?

[Bob Salomon]

He was the leading high end dealer, Leica, Contax, Hasselblad, Rollei, Linhof, etc. in the US for many years. He also supported the two UK partners of the Carbo Infinity.

[Chris_6172]

I did a quick search for Ken Hansen and it looks like he has closed up shop.

[Bob Salomon]

He can be reached by phone.