Wanderlust 4x5 P&S

[Tin Can]

I had forgotten those submarines...

I actually don't mind the wait. It reminds me of being a kid in the 1950's, you know, when you sent off that quarter taped to a Kellog boxtop to Battle Creek, Michigan for some little treasure. We lived in rural southern Indiana. I'd faithfully go out each day to check our big rural mailbox. After a couple of weeks you just kinda forgot the whole thing. Then, some hot August day, 6 or 8 weeks later, mom would say "something came in the mail for you today". The moment of initial confusion and then, Oh Yeah!
Ripping open the little battered brown paperboard box, in great excitement you inspected your treasure.
Could have been a secret decoder spy ring, or even better one of those submarines you put baking soda in to make go up and down in the water.

I've got my lens, and other accoutrements ready. Now I'm going to forget about it, (plenty of other photo related projects). Then, one day, unexpectedly, a package will arrive.

I know you can never go home again, but I still look forward to that experience of discovery and joy.

[Ben Syverson]

Sorry for the lack of updates! We'll have something more to show you soon. We had to make some minor changes to the helical, and in the end we had to redesign three of the parts completely. But the happy result is that we could incorporate a few other changes we had in mind. I think you guys will like the improvements.

[BarryS]

Sorry for the lack of updates! We'll have something more to show you soon. We had to make some minor changes to the helical, and in the end we had to redesign three of the parts completely. But the happy result is that we could incorporate a few other changes we had in mind. I think you guys will like the improvements.

Ben--thanks for the update! Some of us are interested in the design and production process, so any details are appreciated.

[Kuzano]

I actually don't mind the wait. It reminds me of being a kid in the 1950's, you know, when you sent off that quarter taped to a Kellog boxtop to Battle Creek, Michigan for some little treasure. We lived in rural southern Indiana. I'd faithfully go out each day to check our big rural mailbox. After a couple of weeks you just kinda forgot the whole thing. Then, some hot August day, 6 or 8 weeks later, mom would say "something came in the mail for you today". The moment of initial confusion and then, Oh Yeah!
Ripping open the little battered brown paperboard box, in great excitement you inspected your treasure.
Could have been a secret decoder spy ring, or even better one of those submarines you put baking soda in to make go up and down in the water.

I've got my lens, and other accoutrements ready. Now I'm going to forget about it, (plenty of other photo related projects). Then, one day, unexpectedly, a package will arrive.

I know you can never go home again, but I still look forward to that experience of discovery and joy.

Hey, I remember those promotions. I still haven't been to Alaska to see my 1 Square Inch of land in Dawson in the Yukon Territory. It was a certificate on a box of Quaker Puffed Oats or Rice. The promo was called the Klondike Big Inch promo. Gotta get up there and see if the value on that land has gone up in 60 years since I ate that box of cereal. Let's See... Now where did I file that certificate of deed.

http://yukoninfo.com/klondikebiginch.htm

Sent my Synchro Compur Shutter for my Linhof Select Angulon 90 in to SK Grimes. Sent it with a Copal O shutter for my Nikkor 135. CLA and shutter speed table after adjusted.

[Randy]

For those of us who are just now finding out about this project (how did I miss this...I am on the forum several times every day) when will orders be taken for those who didn't get in on the kickstarter project?

[Ben Syverson]

Hi everyone, just a little update.

We're prepping the final files now, and making sure we have all our measurements in order. We've made even more changes since my last message. One of the last things we're trying to determine is the exact position of the set screw—does anyone know? We'd like to have a small cutout for the set screw on the front.

We finally got the indicator and logo type onto the design, and came up with a great solution for focus adjustment. You can see the focus indicator in the design—it's the green part.

It's all coming together now!

For those of us who are just now finding out about this project (how did I miss this...I am on the forum several times every day) when will orders be taken for those who didn't get in on the kickstarter project?

We'll have more info soon—we need to set up a mailing list. But briefly, you'll be able to order a camera after the Kickstarter preorders are shipped. Unfortunately we have no idea when that will be.

[Larry Kellogg]

Looks great! So, the distance scale matches that of the one on the Blik rangefinder and is in meters, right? I think in feet, a bad American habit, but I think meters is fine for this camera. I don't see myself trying to use it for street work, with guessing distances. Would it be too cluttered or difficult to have both meters and feet?

In meters, could you include the little tick marks after 2.5, 5, and 8? ;-)

[dave_whatever]

I wouldn't bother with the set screw cutout to be honest, I doubt there are many angulons left with the set screw still in place.

[Tin Can]

This is an American camera, sold I think, primarily to American's, and we still use 'feet' for distance. Every time I use metric distance, I have to convert it clumsily to yards, which is incorrect enough to matter in many measures, like photography.

We Americans do understand and use metric, but we still prefer SAE or U.S. Units of Measure.

Forcing us to metric has not worked before and I do not think it will work for some time. We tried metric highways in the 70's and it was a huge failure.

Arguing Metric is more logical and international is also ridiculous, anybody can convert measurements simply with the their cell phone or head.

As an aside, I once restored a 1964 Datsun Fairlady roadster. My metric wrenches fit the body parts, but did not fit the engine. It seems we, America, supplied old tooling and manufacturing equipment to Japan under the MacArthur plan to rebuild Japan and Japan for many years used U.S. Units of Measure for heavy machinery.

Perhaps you need to poll again, or examine the current KS participants for location. If this is truly a 'World' camera being purchased by a majority of people outside the U.S. Unit of Measure system, so be it.

[dave_whatever]

Sometimes I think people would do well to remember that 95% of the world's population are not American.... and hence they either think in metres or are capable of dividing by three in their heads.