Wanderlust 4x5 P&S

[zuiko90]

This is just crazy, but crazy is a good way, $15K over goal and 17 days to go! Hope they also decide to supply the camera after fulfilling the backer obligations. Might want to get another one later. Right now I have to carve $250 out of the budget for the 90 f6.8.

[Ben Syverson]

This is just crazy, but crazy is a good way, $15K over goal and 17 days to go! Hope they also decide to supply the camera after fulfilling the backer obligations. Might want to get another one later. Right now I have to carve $250 out of the budget for the 90 f6.8.

Definitely crazy in a good way! I hope we can hit $100K, because then we wouldn't have to be price-conscious when deciding on processes and manufacturing details.

We will certainly offer the camera for sale after the Kickstarter, although we won't take sales until the camera is actually in production. But it would be a waste to make these molds and then not run them.

[AuditorOne]

I have no way of knowing but you may have sold more large format cameras in the last couple of weeks than have been sold by one camera manufacturer in many, many years. Congrats. I am looking forward to your continued updates as you proceed with the manufacturing and distribution process.

Thanks for the chance to be part of this very exciting project and thanks for having given large format more exposure than it probably has had in many, many years.

[Steve Goldstein]

What's especially interesting to me is that this success comes on the heels of the Harman Titan, a pinhole-only 4x5 that's a relative market newcomer as well. All indications are that it's outstripped Harman's expectations. The Titan is more than twice the Travelwide's price, is more limited as it's not designed to mount a lens, and has the distributional muscle of a well-known manufacturer behind it. You can order one today and have it within the week. Yet the Travelwide now has almost 750 supporters, none of whom has any expectation of receiving a camera for months!

Ben and Justin have done a superb job of identifying a price/performance niche and designing a product to fill it. I'm certainly looking forward to receiving mine.

[Tin Can]

It is obvious now, you will far exceed 100K.

I would bet a good Chicago beer, you make $150K.

The market was obviously begging for reasonable new cameras.

I hope Ilford sells a ton of film!

I am extremely pro USA products, but Kodak is a disappoint and not the consumers fault.

Definitely crazy in a good way! I hope we can hit $100K, because then we wouldn't have to be price-conscious when deciding on processes and manufacturing details.

We will certainly offer the camera for sale after the Kickstarter, although we won't take sales until the camera is actually in production. But it would be a waste to make these molds and then not run them.

[AuditorOne]

I for one will be pulling from some of my Efke 25 stash.

[David Karp]

The 65 is really made for the SA 65 ƒ/8 . . . .

Thanks Ben, I was thinking of picking up a more modern 65 that I would share with my other cameras. Having that possibility would be great. A 65 would be a whole new way of seeing for me. I don't think shimming will be a problem. That is a pretty low tech solution.

[Tin Can]

Last night, I counted my efke stash. 13 boxes of 25, 50 and 100. All 2x3... One box efke 100 7x17! I seldom shoot 4X5, but I have a large supply of expired everything except efke. I can shoot our new camera for a long time, even old Velvia 50!

I for one will be pulling from some of my Efke 25 stash.

[JohnnyGator]

Ben,

Congrats on the success of the camera!

Just to be clear, is the plastic ground glass included with the camera? If so, how clear is it? Does it work well?

[Kuzano]

What's especially interesting to me is that this success comes on the heels of the Harman Titan, a pinhole-only 4x5 that's a relative market newcomer as well. All indications are that it's outstripped Harman's expectations. The Titan is more than twice the Travelwide's price, is more limited as it's not designed to mount a lens, and has the distributional muscle of a well-known manufacturer behind it. You can order one today and have it within the week. Yet the Travelwide now has almost 750 supporters, none of whom has any expectation of receiving a camera for months!

Ben and Justin have done a superb job of identifying a price/performance niche and designing a product to fill it. I'm certainly looking forward to receiving mine.

And it appears that 93 of those pledges are for the TWO camera pledge amount, which means about 840 cameras, less any pledges that did not pledge for a camera.