Carbon Fiber View Camera

[Mike A]

I found this over on Tuans site http://translate.google.com/transla...fe=off&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=/language_tools

Mike A

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

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.

 

[highpeak]

For that money, I would like to have a ebony sv45u2, which is lighter.

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

Also, it looks like it belonged on the set of Miami Vice with those stripes! (not that I'd turn one down if someone handed me one).

 

[TimVermont]

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

 

[argus]

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

G

 

[jovo]

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.)

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

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.

 

[eclarke]

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

 

[Andrew Forrester]

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.

 

[darinwc]

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

 

[Paul Sorensen]

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

OMG - Crusty Pullings! If I ever start a band, I now have its name!

 

[eclarke]

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.

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

 

[dphphoto]

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