[LargeFormat] Toyo 45CF

[Brock Nanson]

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Alex Le Heux wrote:

> > Well it IS a bargain!  What you may be missing is that the camera is 
> > made from plastic rather than the metal of the other models in their 
> > field camera range. The price reflects this.
> 
> Clive,
> 
> Carbon Fiber is not really plastic as in the cheap kind. Just like the CF
> tripods are not made of cheap plastic either.
> 
> A CF camera does not have to be of any lower quality than a metal camera,
> just like the CF tripods are also very high quality items. The production
> process is usually also quite different, with the CF parts having to "bake"
> in an autoclave for extended periods of time and such things.
> 
> I am quite suprised the CF Toyo is so cheap. I know that CF bits for my
> motorcycle tend to be two or three times as expensive as non-CF bits...
> 
> Then again, it may still turn out to be a cheaply made camera that'll fall
> apart before the first box of film is empty. Let's hope not though :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alex

Quick, somebody buy one so we can learn the truth!

Seriously though, isn't the price a little low?  Is it likely to be an 
introductory price to get people to try it out, or is it really that 
inexpensive?  No matter how simple, field cameras just never seem to be 
affordable...

By the way, I see Badger has the Cooke Optics Portrait lens 
listed...$3450.  Gulp, glad I don't need one...

Brock Nanson
Kamloops BC Canada