Intrepid

Intrepid 4×5 image by Alex Luyckx (Image rights)

The Intrepid is a series of large format field cameras, made by Intrepid Camera, a start-up founded in 2015 by two young product designers in Brighton, England. It started making its moderately priced Intrepid 4×5 since 2015, financed by a Kickstarter campaign, and soon sold out. The cameras are made from thick plywood panels, with aluminium and some 3D-printed fittings. The 4x5-inch camera weighs 1.3kg, without lens, filmholder, etc.

As of 2024, the cameras offered are:

• Intrepid 4x5 in unstained or black finish; currently the 5th model.
• Intrepid 8x10, unstained or black
• Intrepid 5x7, unstained only.

Black-finish cameras are supplied with black bellows; natural-colour cameras come with a choice of black, red, green or blue bellows. Replacement bellows are also offered, and a bag bellows is promised.

From the end of 2018, Intrepid has offered a kit to use the 4x5 camera as an enlarger. This comprises an LED light-panel in place of a traditional lamp-house, plus negative holders etc. Kits are offered for 35mm - 120 size, and for 4x5-inch.

Links

• about Intrepid Camera
• about the enlarger kit in photoscala [1] (in German)