Canham metal cameras

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Post by dennis » Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:21 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Does anyone have any info on how well (or otherwise) the metal Canham cameras function in use? They look well specced on 'paper'. Thanks.

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Post by CarlRadford » Sat Nov 25, 2006 9:05 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

which looks and performs well. I have a wooden 5x7 and can't recommend it highly enough!

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Post by dennis » Mon Nov 27, 2006 5:07 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Thanks. They are rare S/H tho. Dennis

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Post by masch » Mon Nov 27, 2006 5:39 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Dennis,
general consensus on Canham cameras (esp. the metal ones) on various forums (fori?) is that they are well designed, specced and built. I unfortunately haven't seen one life, so I can't comment much better, but you might try to do a search on www.largeformatphotography.info which has a larger user base than we have here. Folks there are generally quite helpful and Ihave seen quite a few positive comments regarding Canhams.

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Post by Joanna Carter » Mon Nov 27, 2006 6:32 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

masch wrote:... on various forums (fori?)
That would be fora, Marc 8)

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Post by Apple » Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:39 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

ah, the good old neuter plural but is it nominative or dative case? :? :wink:
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Post by Charles Twist » Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:56 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Ablative surely, as there is no movement with regard to location. Therefore foris. Unless you wish to use a preposition followed by the dative or accusative. Excuse the tetratrichotomy.
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Post by Joanna Carter » Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:59 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Could somebody please translate all this grammatical gobbledygook into something a bear of little brain could understand ? :oops:

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Post by Charles Twist » Tue Nov 28, 2006 8:44 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Carter! Pay attention at the back! This is a quality forum - you're no longer apud APUGem.
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Post by Mark Pope » Tue Nov 28, 2006 7:19 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Hmmm tetratrichotomy eh? I had an uncle who had one of those. Very painful by all accounts. :lol:
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Post by Joanna Carter » Tue Nov 28, 2006 8:10 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Tetra - four

Trichotomy - a three way dichotomy

So does that mean 12 choices, 43 choices, or just a word that cannot be found in Wikipedia :?:

Oh, and I could find apud but not apugem :?

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Post by BarryWilkinson » Tue Nov 28, 2006 8:16 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Hello Dennis,

Robert White often has a Canham metal camera in stock. Have you spoken to them? Maybe they are not too far away from you?

I have a Canham but it is wooden.

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Post by dennis » Wed Nov 29, 2006 1:03 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Thanks Barry, I can't afford a new one! Am keeping an eye out for s/h one. Dennis

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