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Don't get me wrong: I suspect that he's spent millions of dollars getting the project to this point, and that it's a mechanically perfect instrument. Huge respect for caring this much and seeing the project through.

But damn.

armadsen•2d ago

Yeah, I've been waiting for it for years too. I thought it was going to be substantially more than $4400 (more like $6-7K). Under $1,000 is unfortunately simply impossible. Used Wideluxes go for a fair bit more than $1K.

That said, too much for me right now. Maybe someday.

_doctor_love•1h ago

Just because we're film enthusiasts doesn't make us SAPS!

JohnnyLarue•29m ago

Nice marmot

_doctor_love•5m ago

Yeah dude, keeping an amphibious rodent within the city, you know, for domestic?

That ain't legal either.

joe_mamba•1h ago

>and I was hoping that it would somehow be under $1000.

Does this product have iPhone levels of sweatshop manufacturing and economies of scale, that such a price point would be realistic to you?

From what I know, the price is exactly where low-volume hand-made craft hardware is in the west, especially given the supply chain geopolitical challenges Trump caused.

bitwize•1h ago

He built it in a cave. With a box of scraps.

fdsajfkldsfklds•33m ago

It seems to suffer from an un-necessary amount of panoramic distortion, unless that is supposed to be part of the charm.

lschueller•13m ago

I don't see, what Jeff Bridges has actively to do with it. Besides being the marketing bait. Thr about us section just repeats the pr biography. What was his part in this camera?

CharlesW•1m ago

Jeff Bridges is a photographer (among other things) who’s been shooting with Widelux cameras for 40+ years.