Carbon Infinity
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| One of several diagrams from the Patent, linked below. (Image rights) |
The Carbon Infinity is a 4x5-inch view camera, designed and manufactured by British designers Angus Noble (see Noble Design) and Adrian Thompson in the early 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. This is covered by a body-shell of carbon fibre, the bottom half of which stays in place when the camera is unfolded; the top is detached. When unfolded, each of the standards is mounted on a single upright, on its own pair of rails in the base, racking forward and back with a knob on the right; 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] He states that the camera weighs 3.3 kg.
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.
- British Patent 2248116, Film and lens holder, filed September 1990 by Barry Angus Noble, describing the L-shaped members supporting the front and rear standards.at Espacenet, the patent search facility of the European Patent Office.
