{"id":204,"date":"2013-04-22T06:43:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T06:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/04\/22\/travelwide-an-ultralight-point-and-shoot-large-format-camera-for-under-100\/"},"modified":"2013-04-22T06:43:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T06:43:17","slug":"travelwide-an-ultralight-point-and-shoot-large-format-camera-for-under-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/04\/travelwide-an-ultralight-point-and-shoot-large-format-camera-for-under-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelwide: An Ultralight Point-and-Shoot Large-Format Camera for Under $100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wanderlustcameras.com\/index.html\">Wanderlust Cameras<\/a> (aka Justin Lundquist and Ben Syverson&#8211;both are awesome photographers with some pretty tight 3D design and fabrication chops, and Lundquist is also my brother-in-law) are just wrapping up the Kickstarter campaign for their newest project: The <a href=\"http:\/\/kck.st\/Ytt3wl\">Travelwide 4&#215;5 Large-formate Point-and-Shoot<\/a>.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/wanderlust\/travelwide-45-camera\/widget\/video.html\" frameborder=\"0\"> <\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Large-format\">&#8220;Large-format&#8221; cameras<\/a> take pictures using *negatives* that are 4-by-5 *inches* or larger&#8211;which is pretty frickin&#8217; huge, when you think about a traditional 35mm image (which is a bit bigger than a postage stamp) or the CCD sensors in a digital camera (which tend to be less than .5-inch square).  A larger negative (or sensor) means higher image resolution and finer color gradation.  Large-format is the way much professional photography is done, and is big with hobbyists&#8211;but it&#8217;s expensive (used large-format rigs start at a several hundred dollars and quickly climb into the thousands) and heavy (these are big hunks of steel).<br \/>\nLundquist and Syverson have designed a super-light, precise, basically indestructible large-format camera body that accepts existing lenses (which can be bought used for pennies on the dollar).  Since Lundquist and Syverson made their name producing the best pinhole &#8220;lens&#8221; available for Micro 4\/3 mirrorless digital cameras (you can <a href=\"http:\/\/wanderlustcameras.com\/products\/pinwide.html\">buy one here<\/a>, or learn more about it from this <a href=\"http:\/\/davideriknelson.com\/Stuff\/NELSON-LightMotif-TheMagazine.pdf\">article I wrote for issue 9 of <I>The Magazine<\/i><\/a>), they&#8217;ve also included a removable pinhole aperture for their Travelwide.  Here&#8217;s a sample pinhole pic taken using that setup:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/ksr\/assets\/000\/483\/760\/29bbfd17583adb2c80e3801ad260f156_large.jpg\" width=400><br \/>\nAnd here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/wanderlust\/travelwide-45-camera\/posts\">a little more background on their design and development process for this camera<\/a>.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not sure if the price will pop up once the Kickstarter campaign is through, but for the next 10 days you can lock in a $100 pre-order for this camera &#8211;which gets you what is, without a doubt, the most precise large-format pinhole camera on the market today, with the added bonus that you can easily swap in a pro lens, or mount after-market range-finders, flashes, tripods, and other accessories on the thing.  Final bonus: The thing is 100% Made in the USA.<br \/>\nLight enough to drag around backcountry Brazil, tight enough to use for a pro-shoot, cheap enough to experiment out in the grit and the rain without constantly worrying that you&#8217;re gonna wreck the damn thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wanderlust Cameras (aka Justin Lundquist and Ben Syverson&#8211;both are awesome photographers with some pretty tight 3D design and fabrication chops, and Lundquist is also my brother-in-law) are just wrapping up the Kickstarter campaign for their newest project: The Travelwide 4&#215;5 Large-formate Point-and-Shoot. &#8220;Large-format&#8221; cameras take pictures using *negatives* that are 4-by-5 *inches* or larger&#8211;which is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/04\/travelwide-an-ultralight-point-and-shoot-large-format-camera-for-under-100\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Travelwide: An Ultralight Point-and-Shoot Large-Format Camera for Under $100&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}