Carbon Infinity
The Carbon Infinity is a 4x5-inch view camera, designed and manufactured by British designers Angus Noble and Adrian Thompson in the 1990s.[1][2] The bulk of the camera (85%% of the weight excluding the lens) is made from carbon fibre (in a diagonally striped grey and black pattern), the rest being aluminium, and titanium fittings.[2] The camera folds into a block defined by its front and rear standards, like a traditional field camera. When unfolded, each of the standards is mounted on a single upright, racking forward and back on a pair of rails in the base; this gives great freedom of camera movements, limited mostly by the bellows.
120 copies of the camera were made,[1] and sold in Japan and the USA. Nathan Congdon, in a post at the Large Format Photography forum, reports buying the last camera stocked by New York dealer Ken Hansen in 1999, and gives a review of the camera.[3]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Infinity Camera at Angus Noble.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 'Other Cameras' at Noble Design
- ↑ Carbon Infinity: Follow-up and BRIEF review, a forum post at Large Format Photography Forum by Nathan Congdon.
Links
- Carbon Infinity serial no. 39 sold at the 35th Leitz Photographica Auction, in November 2019.
