8x10 camera manufacturer identity?

**parleton** · 3-Mar-2012, 13:06

Hey all:

I have an 8x10 metal camera with a round red logo with a "C" letter in the middle. So far there is no other name on the camera, and while waiting for the seller to get back possibly weeks I am wondering if you guys know the manufacturer name. I tried to look up google to no avail. Calumet? Cambo? Canham? Caltar? I'll post picture of the logo tonight.

Any idea?

Thanks guys.

**Jon Shiu** · 3-Mar-2012, 13:15

Probably Calumet. You can see their old catalogs on cameraeccentric.com

Jon

**parleton** · 3-Mar-2012, 13:26

thank you Jon. I looked up the catalog and it is similar to but identical, at any rate the Calumet's logo then is different than the Calumet's current logo so I surmise it probably is Calumet logo. if anyone else has infor please let me know. thanks all.

edit: yup it is a Calumet camera looked like this one http://www.thsimagery.com/calumet8x10.htm

**Brian Ellis** · 3-Mar-2012, 14:59

Originally Posted by parleton

thank you Jon. I looked up the catalog and it is similar to but identical, at any rate the Calumet's logo then is different than the Calumet's current logo so I surmise it probably is Calumet logo. if anyone else has infor please let me know. thanks all.

edit: yup it is a Calumet camera looked like this one http://www.thsimagery.com/calumet8x10.htm

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**parleton** · 3-Mar-2012, 15:58

aha, mine is in black Brian. it looks better than green IMHO :-)

**Robert Opheim** · 3-Mar-2012, 23:21

I have a Calumet "black beast" - it is really heavy for field work - but once it is set up it won't move around. Which my old wood 8x10 did. Also it will take large heavy lenses - which don't work very well on a light wood camera - at least the one I had.