Is this worth a trip to Hamburg?

[medform-norm]

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]

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]

Hamburg is worth sightseeing, anyway ;-)))

 

[medform-norm]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.