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[Photowithfries]

Bought this baby from Kumar. Cleaned it a bit and added new levels. It is set up to shoot 6x7 which is maximum for my enlargers. I think it's called a Cambo SC1. It's the only One I've ever seen. After many years shooting in studio with SCIIs
I think this is the cutest 2x3 camera I've ever seen! And it's the only one of it's kind that I can find altho it seems that it was available by special order. Not much larger than a Hasselblad with a shift body but twice the film size! It's on a Tiltall tripod!

 

[ic-racer]

Beautiful!

On my medium format view cameras I use a laser to set the zero detents. Realizing that with medium format view cameras, the film plane has to be aligned to the lens as perfect as Hasselblad gets with a fixed mount system.

 

[jvo]

sweet!

(there's even a knob for brushing your teeth!)

 

[Dan Fromm]

OP, I share your enthusiasm for the SC1 but I think you've gone overboard. They're not that rare, I have two and a half of them and had and sold a third. They're also not that common.

The SC1 is more capable than a Flexbody, also considerably larger and heavier. I just weighed a rear standard with universal back and focusing panel. 1,278 g according to my kitchen scale. The Flexbody's cataloged weight is 700 g.

 

[gone]

It does look just like teeth. Probably easier to use if you have dentures.

 

[Photowithfries]

It does resemble teeth! But on reflection those appear to be "circles of confusion". Very difficult to illustrate properly, requiring 2 cheap wink light flashes and a cheap lens on board.
3-D modeled dentures may be the next best project. Thanks for the tip!

 

[Photowithfries]

Just bought a 58mm Schneider XL from Kumar. Now the little 6x7 Cambo has WA, Normal, and Tele lenses, so, good perspective control is within it's range. Darkroom is for 6x7 format. Ambient temp today is 103 degrees f. so processing at c-41 temp will be easy (ridiculously hot days). Then turn on the AC while it dries, cool down the place for a bit and start a print after a couple of hours! Hopefully do several before passing out! Still trying to work it all out...

 

[el_37]

I seem to remember the SC2 was also available in 6x9/2x3- anyone have a late 90's calumet catalog they can check?

 

[BrianShaw]

I seem to remember the SC2 was also available in 6x9/2x3- anyone have a late 90's calumet catalog they can check?

I believe the nomenclature in the 1980-90’s was “SC” for the model Super Cambo and “1” for 2x3 and “2” for 4x5.

But further research seems to indicate that it depends on what decade one is considering:

Super Cambo - Camera-wiki.org - The free camera encyclopedia

camera-wiki.org

 

[gone]

Tucson is running similar temps. The monsoons have come to be called the nonsoons since rain has been virtually absent this year. Not much humidity though, and we've had breezes almost every day.

In Fl, I would have been dead in 103 degree temps. It feels so strange to be standing in the summer sun here and not sweat. No A/C yet either, the swamp cooler still cools things down.

I print at night, but inside temps are still 80+. The image comes up very quickly in the developer.

 

[el_37]

I believe the nomenclature in the 1980-90’s was “SC” for the model Super Cambo and “1” for 2x3 and “2” for 4x5.

But further research seems to indicate that it depends on what decade one is considering:

Super Cambo - Camera-wiki.org - The free camera encyclopedia

camera-wiki.org

I found some late 90's Cambo material on the internet- I believe the camera I was remembering was the 23SF- which to me looks like a Sinar F2 inspired design to my eyes. Funny how all these cameras can blend together.....

Would still like to find a circa 2000 Calumet catalog to be sure. The nostalgia factor alone would be interesting....