Is this worth a trip to Hamburg?

medform-norm · Sep 15, 2005

We're toying with the idea of getting a cheap 8x10 and found this thing for cheap on eBay. We're sure we've seen it before, but can't remember who made it. Anyone here know what this is? And is it worth a 5 hour trip to Hamburg?

Thanks,
norm

joeyk49 · Sep 15, 2005

I don't know about the camera... But living in NJ, any excuse for a trip to Germany would do it for me! Hehehehe...

mono · Sep 15, 2005

Hamburg is worth sightseeing, anyway ;-)))

medform-norm · Sep 15, 2005

joeyk49 said:
I don't know about the camera... But living in NJ, any excuse for a trip to Germany would do it for me! Hehehehe...

yeah, and it would take you in NJ by plane just a little longer than it'd take us in NL by car...amazing, huh, these modern distances?

Last time we were in Hamburg is quite some years ago when a friend of us was buying a used Porsche from some dealer in the outskirts of the town and needed us to translate. Oh man, that was one helluva trip. Haven't seen much of the city, but lots of the used Porsche dealers place...on the way back I sat in the passenger seat, working my way through the cars instruction book telling the driver to try this, and that, and, hey, let's see what it does when you press the thing that says 'boost'...

John Kasaian · Sep 15, 2005

It looks like a studio camera of some sorts. If you're into portraits and if the bellows are generous enough for table top work(and you've got a studio to house the thing) it would certainly be a fun camera given those limitations(unless you have something like a Pinzgauer with a tail gate you can bolt it onto so you can take it afield) Whether or not it would be worth a five hour drive would, IMHO depend on the traffic!;-)

Cheers!

Charles Webb · Sep 16, 2005

It looks like my old F & S 11x14 studio camera, only shrunk a bit. The cradle rocker mount it is in is wonderful for portrait/studio work. I would be very interested if it were available to me from Chicago or somewhere else here in the States.

Paul Sorensen · Sep 16, 2005

I've got a headache from reading Dutch and German on the same page.

Looks like a fun camera, though, and the price seems good. Go for it, we all need excuses to get out and see the world a little!

TheMissingLink · Sep 16, 2005

norm,

if you have problems to get there, let me know, I could get the camera and send it via gls-germany to you. This weekend I get home ... the costs should be 20,-Eu at the max.

Horst

BradS · Sep 16, 2005

One could justify a trip to Hamburg based upon the beer alone...the camera would just be so mush icing on the cake....Go for it!

medform-norm · Sep 16, 2005

BradS said:
One could justify a trip to Hamburg based upon the beer alone...the camera would just be so mush icing on the cake....Go for it!

Too bad, auction ended before we could get to the net. Never mind, it wasn't a real workable option for street photography - more Ole's size of things, not for us who lug cams around on our bikes in heavy traffic. It was just too enourmous for that kind of abuse.

BradS · Sep 17, 2005

medform-norm said:
Too bad, auction ended before we could get to the net. Never mind, it wasn't a real workable option for street photography - more Ole's size of things, not for us who lug cams around on our bikes in heavy traffic. It was just too enourmous for that kind of abuse.

Sounds like you'd be better off with a Linhof or a Speed/Crown Graphic....

medform-norm · Sep 17, 2005

BradS said:
Sounds like you'd be better off with a Linhof or a Speed/Crown Graphic....

Hmm, an 8x 10 Linhof Kardan Color is nice, but so are Plaubels and Cambos, yummie.

Is this worth a trip to Hamburg?

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