Wanderlust 4x5 P&S

Thanks Alex! Our main goal and biggest hope is that this camera will reduce the price and weight barriers to shooting 4x5. Price-wise we'll get more people into the game, and the camera will be light enough that you won't associate LF with back pain!

The vignetting won't be as severe as it looks, since I've had to jack the contrast up so high. I was also using a lens hood that I only recently realized was vignetting the image.

The DOF is pretty good at ƒ/6.8, but if you enlarge the second image, you can see that the people are slightly out of focus. That could be solved by stopping down, or perhaps by splitting the difference between infinity and 5 meters. I actually anticipate this being a bit of a learning curve. On a DSLR with a 28mm lens, you could get the sculpture, people and buildings in focus even at a pretty wide aperture, so people might not think about placing focus on an image like that. But with 4x5, even at 90mm, you have a focus decision to make: buildings, people, or stop down and a longer exposure?

I always go with stop down as I always shoot ISO50.. so I'm shooting slow exposures anyway.

Then you'll have no trouble! :)

:) As an example of why I'm so excited.. Next month A few mates and I intend to go for a 4 hour intense hike (half of which is done in waist deep, flowing water) to the base of a large waterfall in a nearby national park.. 4 hours hike to the base, shoot some LF, turn around, 4 hour hike out... Carying any field camera for this would be a nightmare, and carying my monorail is simply out of the question. The Wanderlust 4x5 on the other hand weighs less than the front standard of my monorail, takes up about as much room as the front standard of my monorail camera and for all intents and purposes it will take just as good an image.. Thats why for me its a winner!

Encouraging shots! This is going to be cool.

This strikes me as a whole lot like the Globuscope, only made of plastic and not quite as sophisticated.

VERY nice test photos! Hoping I can take this camera with me to Ireland in September.... :)

Yes, this is basically like the Globuscope, but we plan to make more than three of them!

Hey Ben I just wanted to let you know I encourage you to develop this camera and I will definitely buy one when the time comes. As another member said above this would be great to use a walking light weight camera to throw in a bag and use. I have a Caltar/Rodenstock Grandagon 90mm F/6.8 so this camera would be perfect for it. I'm holding out on purchasing that new Harman/Ilford pinhole camera for this. God speed Ben!

Thank you, Gabriel! That Harman/Ilford camera looks very cool, and now they're going to have an 8x10 version. I wish them the best—any new film camera is reason to celebrate!