its weird that the last guy took it, by himself, up from 1800 to 4800. . . . sketchy.
If that camera's builder could have got that kind of money for them when they were new, there might have been more than 65 of them made.
Wow the seller has a 10 rating and it ended at $4800. Whoever bought that is very brave.
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As for bidding it up from $1,800 to 4,800....you gotta be kidding me. That price jump was more likely a product of Jerald saying "I hate it when people do this when I am thinking of buying something, so I will return the favor" which started this thread and ended up having 500+ people looking at the auction
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Pete.
... does it have any attractions over, say, a used Technikardan at about half the price?
For the Carbon Infinity owners--It's a beautiful camera to be sure, but other than the self-casing feature and general coolness of having a rare carbon fiber/titanium camera with sports-car styling, does it have any attractions over, say, a used Technikardan at about half the price?
Oops. Sorry about that. I really don't like it when people do that but those cameras rarely come up and I have read several references to that camera. I thought some here would be interested. I have never seen one in person but they look great.
Along those lines, anyone ever see any of the Lawson 4x4 cameras? Those never seemed to take off.
First of all, it has all the movements you could think of - and then some. For instance the front axial tilt can be tuned so that the tilt axis passes through the entrance pupil of the lens - that means the image doesn't shift if you apply tilt after framing.
And then it can take just about any realistic focal length from 38mm to 600mm with the normal bellows. I have bag bellows for mine which makes it easier to use very short lenses, though.
The self-casing is very useful to me, since I live in a mountainous area: I trust the CI to survive anything I can survive. Landscape photography around here can be tricky...
For those of us who "need" the combination of portability and movements there is simply nothing else which comes close. For photographers in flatter pars of the world it might well be overkill.
I figure it's like a Porsche. Nobody NEEDS a Porsche. But it is a very elegant solution to a "problem".
I'm of the opinion that a Sinar is entirely unnecessary expenditure when there are far cheaper cameras that would do the same thing.
I say, if you've got the money, and you want something or have a perceived need for it, buy it.
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