Wanderlust 4x5 P&S

[Brian Puccio]

One day, Einstein, Newton, and Pascal meet up and decide to play a game of hide and seek. Einstein volunteered to be "it".

As Einstein counted, eyes closed, to 100, Pascal ran away and hid. Newton stood right in front of Einstein and drew a one meter by one meter square on the floor around himself. When Einstein opened his eyes, he immediately saw Newton and said "I found you Newton!".

Newton replied, "No, you found Pascal! I am one Newton per square meter."

This joke doesn't work so well in imperial units.

[Tin Can]

I first said f***, then I chuckled...

One day, Einstein, Newton, and Pascal meet up and decide to play a game of hide and seek. Einstein volunteered to be "it".

As Einstein counted, eyes closed, to 100, Pascal ran away and hid. Newton stood right in front of Einstein and drew a one meter by one meter square on the floor around himself. When Einstein opened his eyes, he immediately saw Newton and said "I found you Newton!".

Newton replied, "No, you found Pascal! I am one Newton per square meter."

This joke doesn't work so well in imperial units.

[MOZ]

Hi guys,

When do you think/believe the travelwide might be ready/out ?

[zuiko90]

Hi guys,

When do you think/believe the travelwide might be ready/out ?

Their Kickstarter page shows delivery to backers starts Dec/2013, anything earlier than that I consider as pure gravy.
If you are asking when they will be available for sale to the public, I sure the answer is; it depends......

[rdenney]

My Blik rangefinder is in meters. So are all other Blik rangefinders.

Randy, three meters equals ten feet, which is easy enough to remember. That approximation is off by all of 1.6%. (It's the same good approximation as 100mm equals four inches, if you do the math.)

Forget yards--one meter equals one yard is off by nearly 10%.

Rick "whose skill with math is not tested by this simple conversion" Denney

[rdenney]

Their Kickstarter page shows delivery to backers starts Dec/2013, anything earlier than that I consider as pure gravy.
If you are asking when they will be available for sale to the public, I sure the answer is; it depends......

Ben has confirmed the notion that they will use the investment dollars to make a production run larger than those who are already owed cameras. Depending on their costs, they may be able to come out of that first run with a significant stock on hand.

Maybe Ben and Justin can start a new thread in this forum to announce the general sale of that additional stock after the Kickstarter backers have received their cameras.

Rick "who was the first backer, and whose wife was one of the last backers" Denney

[Roger Cole]

My Blik rangefinder is in meters. So are all other Blik rangefinders.

Randy, three meters equals ten feet, which is easy enough to remember. That approximation is off by all of 1.6%. (It's the same good approximation as 100mm equals four inches, if you do the math.)

Forget yards--one meter equals one yard is off by nearly 10%.

Rick "whose skill with math is not tested by this simple conversion" Denney

Well if you're using a rangefinder, well and good. But if guesstimating the difference between meters and yards is less than the error in my ability to estimate distance by eye.

[pierre506]

Could the camera use the Linhof zoom viewfinder？

[rdenney]

Well if you're using a rangefinder, well and good. But if guesstimating the difference between meters and yards is less than the error in my ability to estimate distance by eye.

I was responding to Randy's complaint that estimating meters as yards wasn't precise enough.

Rick "whose surveyor-trained pace used to be accurate enough that it mattered" Denney

[Steve Smith]

Randy, three meters equals ten feet, which is easy enough to remember. That approximation is off by all of 1.6%.

I thought it was off by more than that - until I did the maths (not math, we can multi-task!).


Steve.