Photokina; New 6x9 and new Epson V800/V850

[Ernst Dinkla]

Not a folder but at the Harman-Ilford booth there was a prototype 6x9 pinhole camera. Very early stages, not even red windows etc applied. It looked like another design from Walker:
http://www.walkercameras.com/pinhole_cameras.html
The 120 film follows a path more common in Hasselblad backs etc than the normal folder film path route. Inlay masks to change the image format but only possible when a new film was loaded. Overall it had some Lomo appeal. I suggested they should make it easy to mount a true lens on it, say a front cell focusing 105mm from a folder.

Epson launched the V800 and V850 scanners so there is at least one company still supplying some support for MF and above film scanning. Small improvements compared to the V700?V750 models.

Ernst Dinkla

 

[shadowfox]

Not a folder but at the Harman-Ilford booth there was a prototype 6x9 pinhole camera. Very early stages, not even red windows etc applied. It looked like another design from Walker:
http://www.walkercameras.com/pinhole_cameras.html
The 120 film follows a path more common in Hasselblad backs etc than the normal folder film path route. Inlay masks to change the image format but only possible when a new film was loaded. Overall it had some Lomo appeal. I suggested they should make it easy to mount a true lens on it, say a front cell focusing 105mm from a folder.

Ernst, you took the words out of my mouth.
I am puzzled by this continued fascination with pinhole cameras by Ilford. One or two models should be enough, no?

I don't mind pinhole photos, they do have a certain charm, but as you alluded to, there are thousands of perfectly working folder lenses out there that can be had for very little cost, fully capable of creating nice, sharp, big format photos, if they just make a focusing and flexible mounting mechanism.