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Ok, according to Ben Syverson they have to be made in minimum batches of 250 at a time. He now has several thousand folks who have signed up for an email notification who have expressed at least some interest in the camera. I believe he intends to sell the TravelWide 90 with the helical for $150 if he makes another batch. At this point in time he claims he wants to continue production. I don't know for sure whether he will require a deposit from customers before committing to another batch.
If you wait around for another couple of months there will probably be several TW90's turn up for sale from backers who have moved on to other LF gear or have found the camera didn't fill their needs after all. At this time he has shipped about 1/2 of all cameras spoken for. I don't know how much longer it will take to fill all the backers and a pre sale of 300 cameras left over from the original production run. We, the original backers have waited almost two years from the original delivery estimate of December 2013 so at least for the next couple of months I don't think any backers will be interested in selling their cameras.
Finally, Ben has spent a large amount of his own savings, well past the Kickstarter money raised to bring this to completion. He has a very strong incentive to produce more cameras to offset his loses on this project.
Ok, according to Ben Syverson they have to be made in minimum batches of 250 at a time. He now has several thousand folks who have signed up for an email notification who have expressed at least some interest in the camera. I believe he intends to sell the TravelWide 90 with the helical for $150 if he makes another batch. At this point in time he claims he wants to continue production. I don't know for sure whether he will require a deposit from customers before committing to another batch.
If you wait around for another couple of months there will probably be several TW90's turn up for sale from backers who have moved on to other LF gear or have found the camera didn't fill their needs after all. At this time he has shipped about 1/2 of all cameras spoken for. I don't know how much longer it will take to fill all the backers and a pre sale of 300 cameras left over from the original production run. We, the original backers have waited almost two years from the original delivery estimate of December 2013 so at least for the next couple of months I don't think any backers will be interested in selling their cameras.
Finally, Ben has spent a large amount of his own savings, well past the Kickstarter money raised to bring this to completion. He has a very strong incentive to produce more cameras to offset his loses on this project.
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