Did the Travelwide ever get off the ground?

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This will never be a commercially available camera right?

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.

 

[Kevin Caulfield]

I was in touch with Ben today as my camera hasn't arrived yet and he replied quickly that it is probably delayed by customs.

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[Dr Croubie]

I was in touch with Ben today as my camera hasn't arrived yet and he replied quickly that it is probably delayed by customs.

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Weird if yours did but mine didn't. But stranger things have happened. I ordered a $5 SD card off fleabay from Malaysia end of sept. Tracking number says it got to Aus on Oct 2nd. Still haven't got it. Post office ladies said it was probably held up in customs too.

 

[Kevin Caulfield]

Years ago, friends sent me this massive box from Ohio and it took 28 days by air mail. It had spent half that time in customs in Melbourne. The great news for my Travelwide is that I just checked and quite randomly it happens that my 90mm lens is the exact one Wanderlust recommend. Also we are going to California in 10 days so I will hopefully have a new toy to bring with me.

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[Ken Nadvornick]

This will never be a commercially available camera right?

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.

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That didn't take long.

:eek:

Ken

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

I got an email that mine is on the truck for delivery. Should have it in another day or two. I'm eagerly anticipating getting to play with the pinhole.

 

[LarsAC]

Received mine in Germany today, too.

Unfortunately my interest in large format has changed, so I sold it already as well.

Well done, however - really nice and lightweight.

Lars

 

[mnemosyne]

So mine arrived yesterday, too. Nice that this thing materialized after so much waiting. Had to pay a bit of customs fees, but here it is! Looks overall nice and well excetued, only the focus movement is a bit stiff/rough, but this is probably better than too loose. I haven't yet figured out which lens to use, we'll see ...

 

[outwest]

Tracking says it is on the truck and out for delivery. They were shipped Priority 2 Day. Where to start - mod for Grafmatic, which lens to mount, find a cable release, defrost the film....