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April 29, 2015 at 11:31 am

Thank you Mark, thank you Jenny…

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April 27, 2015 at 4:46 pm

a new year or two… more at http://www.carboncameras.com

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July 7, 2014 at 3:18 pm

Photographer:
aoluain

Post Date: June 11. 2014

Thread: 365 Instantly. https://www.photographyireland.net/365-instantly-t53208-180.html#p313566

Notes:

Day #160 365 instant photo project
Sponge
Camera: Polaroid Land Camera 101
Film: Fuji FP-3000B

A photograph every day for a year- Alan has passed the halfway point now, with no sign of faltering.
An enjoyable series, with the occasional gem. I like this one from June, and a few others too.

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May 3, 2014 at 7:00 pm

Looking good Alan, you’re very dedicated…

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May 3, 2014 at 6:57 pm

Well they made it- not so long ago, it seemed like they would come nowhere near their target-
I see Mark is a backer- any others here?

Of course, it’s good news for me personally, the value of my three 545 holders has just shot up dramatically…

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January 9, 2014 at 9:40 am

Sorry Alan, confused here- the 365- do you mean pictures or motorbikes?

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January 2, 2014 at 11:08 am

FP3000B RD 250?

Great project, hope it goes well, will be keeping a check on the exif…

Hope you’re keeping the negatives-

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December 27, 2013 at 3:46 pm

Thank you, I suspect you might find yourself in the majority there-

Update coming after the new year is out of the way…

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December 24, 2013 at 12:06 pm

Now Alan, just because I’m not on Facebook every day doesn’t mean I’m hiding…

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September 27, 2013 at 7:10 am

Thanks Damien-

Yes, I had seen those, in fact I think I posted a link to the Wanderlust here at the time- they should be shipping soon-

These are all perfect kickstarter projects, well two of them are, just the right price point.

This one would cost rather a lot more, so coming up with a good rewards strategy might be more difficult than coming up with a camera…

Anyway, not nearly ready for all that, but thanks for the vote of confidence-

Away again now, hopefully get to use it a bit over the next few weeks…

Thanks again-

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September 26, 2013 at 10:42 am

Well thank you for the vote of confidence-

This one really is a prototype-
I’m working on the next one now-

This one is much too heavy, it was sized for really large lenses.
The next one will be a proper field camera, with a design weight of 5 kg, and film holder weights of 400g each.
There have been many lessons learned from this one, and there will be many improvements made…

Users of Large Format are notoriously conservative, and I can’t see too many of them being willing to adopt a new system like this one-
It wouldn’t be cheap to produce either, so it would have to be a really premium product.

In addition to that, the market is really tiny, it’s a crazy thing to want to do.
So I wouldn’t want to have to explain the concept to any of the tightwads on Dragon’s Den, for example.

So, altogether, everything seems stacked against this being a commercial product.

But we’ll see…

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September 22, 2013 at 5:38 pm

Thanks Rob, Murchu, Alan-
Well saying that takes you back, reminds you of a simpler time…

Thanks for the offers to carry the small stuff, appreciated, and just what I need…

Alan, no, would be great to cast my own carbn fiber, but if I were to have attempted that it wouldn’t be built yet at all. All the carbon was cnc cut, by waterjet. It was a bit of an experiment, learned a lot…

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July 16, 2013 at 6:41 am

Thanks Mark- yes, a mishap in the darkroom brought about some strange effects, and now I turn into Negative Man in the presence of Hypo…
Well spotted Isabella, it’s a Golden Rectangle, quite unusual for ULF… Still not used to it really-

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July 14, 2013 at 3:54 pm

From the first batch of negs-

First Negative, C11.17 by joseph – jb7, on Flickr

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July 6, 2013 at 3:18 pm

Thanks Eddie- I’ll just have to bring enough big film to make it worth your while…