I only found out, today, quite by chance, about the Wanderlust Travelwide camera, and was intrigued. It seems like a great idea, but it also seems like dead one. I mean, it is as if the company had ceased to exist. Is this correct? What happened?
I only found out, today, quite by chance, about the Wanderlust Travelwide camera, and was intrigued. It seems like a great idea, but it also seems like dead one. I mean, it is as if the company had ceased to exist. Is this correct? What happened?
I know most of the part designs for the Travelwide are available on Thingiverse, if you have access to 3D printing.
You might want to check out the Chroma Snapshot as well. Chroma seems a little more active.
Yes it's dead due to the complaining about the camera's production process and (reasonable) delays back when it was Kickstarted, causing burnout and distaste of the community by the creators.
Sadly mine was sent off to a friendly person to mod and he has disappeared. It was a good camera. Would love to find another one.
Mine still works fine
Tin Can
A suitable replacement is being made my Chroma, called the Snapshot. It looks to be a more complex but superior design.
I think the creators were less put off by the community as by the process of selling a popular 'anything' and having to deal with the resulting madness. They had problems with production, massive delays, then just shipping them worldwide! What a headache.
There was a design flaw they should have found in testing
I picked mine up from their factory, took one look and took it apart
I saw the design flaw straightaway
I put it right back together and have been very gentle with it since, it is a useful camera I am glad to have
I also modified mine before using, with a different easy fix
I have joined far worse KS and got nothing usable
Got one last KS coming, then I am done with KS
Unless I get a plan....
Tin Can
There seem to be more:
https://mercurycamera.com/
https://www.maleficwares.com/
https://film.kolve.org/darkroomdiy/w...endly-cameras/
Mercury Camera is odd in that I can't see any information on the company. Malefic is from Italy, Europe. Will Travel, a DIY alternative, is from Norway, Europe.
The method of mounting the "lens board" (for want of a better word) to the camera body is weak. I managed to break mine when jamming it in tightly when packing other gear. Fixed it fine with epoxy. There is a 30 page thread here on one of the forums that span a couple of years on dealing with that issue.
At the time of the Kickstarter project, you could not beat the concept at the price; first $99, ten $150, I think. The 90mm f/ 6.8 Angulon registers well on the helical mount. I like it. There is a 30 page thread here on one of the forums that span a couple of years on dealing with that issue.
These cameras do come up on e-Bay once in a while. I may put mine up on there one of these days.
Drew Bedo
www.quietlightphoto.com
http://www.artsyhome.com/author/drew-bedo
There are only three types of mounting flanges; too big, too small and wrong thread!
Please note, I never said I fixed the flaw, I recognized it as a big problem
Nobody has made a 'FIX' as there is no room inside the box
and if you search this Forum you will find a lot of details and info on the camera many of us obtained, not bought, through KS, as our reward...
MY MODIFICATION was a simple hole to allow a cable release to be used handheld, an obvious omission, not structural
I also made a GG panel with DIY ground glass to make focus easier, then I calibrated the focus for fixed distances, and no longer need any GG
I primarily use it with flashbulbs at estimated 5' in dark drinking establishments aka, Pubs
Here is one shot, pun intended, of old friends, made with Travelwide and one flashbulb, yielding a glimpse of my past
1-1-Green What by TIN CAN COLLEGE, on Flickr
Tin Can
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