Carbon Fiber View Camera

David A. Goldfarb

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Alas the Carbon Infinity wasn't produced for very long, but it was a beautiful camera. Ken Hansen used to sell them in New York.
 

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Interesting automatic translation: "silver the large size has beautiful days in front of him..." Amen and pass the film.
 

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LOL on the translations.
From what I read in the article, it's a very interesting camera.

If only it came in snake leatherette, i'd buy it

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What a cool looking camera! YIKES!! Last summer a cellist showed up at a rehearsal with a carbon fiber cello. It was similarly striped and downright weird looking. Thank god I'm not still in high school (well...lol...not for a looooong time) because I KNOW some fool teacher would have found a way to force us to join the marching band with the damn thing! (It didn't sound as bad as you might think...but it wasn't about to replace wood.)
 

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I know someone with a carbon fiber viola, and she loves it. Her sense is that it plays as well as a wooden viola many times more expensive than the CF viola, but that there are of course yet better wooden violas that she could never afford.

I've played a classical guitar with carbon fiber bracing, and it was quite a nice thing, though the CF was only one aspect of its design.
 

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I think only 50 or 60 were actually built but one seems to come up on eBay every year. I have seen 3 of them there,1 was pristine and the other 2 were beaten up pretty badly. I have collected all the images of them and have about 30 pictures. If anyone is curious I could post them somewhere...EC
 

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I own a carbon Infinity but seldom take it out of its leather case, I prefer larger cameras. Mine is no. 073, so perhaps there were more than 60 manufactured. It's a nice camera but a fiddly to to set up.
 

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more good translations:
"implies to print with 115 dpi, which is not at all sufficient to obtain "crusty" pullings."
 

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Andrew Forrester said:
I own a carbon Infinity but seldom take it out of its leather case, I prefer larger cameras. Mine is no. 073, so perhaps there were more than 60 manufactured. It's a nice camera but a fiddly to to set up.
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Yes, I found an article from several years ago which stated the actual number was 100. It is a very neat camera and I would enjoy owning one but I don't think I would use it. I use Arca Swiss which are definitely not fiddly...EC
 

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You know, these things show up on eBay every so often. I haven't bothered to watch one to see what it goes for, since I don't think I'd want one. Looks a little too strange to me, and besides, I really like wood cameras. Dean
 
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