Wanderlust 4x5 P&S

[Fred L]

hold steady Tim. Mine took about a month or so to arrive. tracking was stalled for a long time but then bam, it updated and arrived. was nervous tbh

[Tim Meisburger]

Well, there can be no tracking because I've never received notification of shipment. If I had that I would be fine. Or even just an email saying it had been shipped, without tracking info. What I don't have is any communication at all.

[Tim Meisburger]

Five weeks ago I had an email from Ben saying he was sorry it had been so long and that my camera would finally be shipped that week. Since then no word, nor reply to tweets or emails. I think the company has folded. I give up.

[Steve Pitchford]

It's all OK here. I buy and sell film camera's on eBay for fifteen years now, and I am buying and selling like crazy. Not only do I have other camera's to shoot, but I have plenty of camera's to test shoot and clean up for sale. I made enough money last month to buy 20 travelwides on the new pricing for second run. I'll have to slow down to shoot the camera when the two I have coming arrive.

If not, I quess I'll just have to be satisfied to be making more money on my eBay listings. I'm patient.

t

Hi Kuzano,

I was just reviewing old post on the TW blog for "fix it Up" ideas when I came across you're above entry. I just wanted to say I've been buying and selling cameras and lenses on ebay for two years and I haven't made a dime yet. Please share a few of your trade secrets with me. I was buying and fixing up certain cameras that could be resold, during the TW production process. Then I lost my right eye to cancer and all short range depth perception went with it, which meant no more tiny screws or wire soldering, and the realization that I was loosing money on repair work anyway. Also my growing personal collection of miniature 35mm view/ranger finder cameras was eating up the little profits I had made. It's so addicting! I promised my wife I would quit, the next I bought two more- a cannon QL17 and a Olympus RC35. Both had "untested" light meters that didn't work; ha ha. My new goal is to get back to shooting pictures and not repairing old cameras.

Any advice on buying and selling, without repairing, would be wonderful and carefully studied late at night.

P.S. I have three great 8x10 LF lenses for sale, a beautiful Bausch & Lomb Protar VII 23 1/4, 11 7/8, 65mm dia. matching series no's convertible in a factory set compound shutter. also, a Schneider Kreuznach Syrmmar-S, f5.6/ 210mm lens currently in a Sinar mount bd.,but will fit a Copal 1 shutter. Front element is 78mm, rear is 55mm big glass. And an Ilex No.3 Acme Sync. shutter, Paragon Anastigmat f4.5, 5 1/2 in. w/ filter exposure compensation. Clean & works no wear marks. I will soon be listing them. Any experience with LF lenses? Thanks, write when you can.

Happy trails,
SteveP

[Drew Bedo]

I used to get a table twice a year at the old Houston Camera Show. Had a ball buying and selling lower end stuff.

After one show I was going through the boxes and my wife asked me why I did all this but never seemed to make any money! I Fuzz-mumbled something, but did give it a bit of thought.

What I came up withI: If I brought home more stuff it was just"More damn cameras!", but if I had brought home a wad of hundred dollar bills . . .it was community property!

[Oren Grad]

Folks, let's keep this focused on the Travelwide, please. General discussion on buying/selling belongs elsewhere.

[plywood]

Don't know about anyone else but I'm following with interest to see if Tim Meisburger ever gets his camera. If it was me I'd be looking for a contact in Chicago to ask Ben, face to face, what's happened to the camera. There is also a person from NZ who on March 12 inquired about where her camera was. Don't think Wanderlust would ever be able to launch another KS campaign. The paucity of back and forth communication from their side and reluctance to answer direct questions from backers about unfulfilled rewards will remain a sore point for a long time.

Credit where credit is due. Ben and Justin stuck with this project long after lesser men would have given up and filed chapter 11 and I think the project was mostly successful, I really like my TW90 and think it is a wonderful example of simple but functional design.

But still......

[Drew Bedo]

If having a P&S 4x5 camera is what you want/need, then look on the FS/WTB forum here and on APUG . . .or go to e-Bay. Travel Wides have been coming up every week or so since shipping was announced. I misses out as a founder and missed the pre-order offering later, but snagged one in a private sale two weeks into December of last year.

These cameras are stull inexpensive at twice the price.

On the other hand, if one's mission in life is just making someone else do what they were supposed to do, then you should go into Law Enforcement or Education.

To quote Plywood above:

"Credit where credit is due. Ben and Justin stuck with this project long after lesser men would have given up and filed chapter 11 and I think the project was mostly successful, I really like my TW90 and think it is a wonderful example of simple but functional design."

I completely agree.

[AuditorOne]

To quote plywood; "Credit where credit is due. Ben and Justin stuck with this project long after lesser men would have given up and filed chapter 11 and I think the project was mostly successful, I really like my TW90 and think it is a wonderful example of simple but functional design."

I completely agree.

As do I. This has become one of my all time favorite cameras and it would never have happened without their persistence.

I do however hope that all the cameras get to all the people who were supposed to get one.

[Andrew O'Neill]

Tim, my camera took over a month to arrive after I received notification. I'm sure yours will show up.