[LargeFormat] Toyo 45CF

[Clive Warren]

At 12:37 pm +0200 9/7/02, Alex Le Heux wrote:
>  > Well it IS a bargain!  What you may be missing is that the camera is
>>  made from plastic rather than the metal of the other models in their
>>  field camera range. The price reflects this.
>
>Clive,
>
>Carbon Fiber is not really plastic as in the cheap kind. Just like the CF
>tripods are not made of cheap plastic either.
>
>A CF camera does not have to be of any lower quality than a metal camera,
>just like the CF tripods are also very high quality items. The production
>process is usually also quite different, with the CF parts having to "bake"
>in an autoclave for extended periods of time and such things.
>
>I am quite suprised the CF Toyo is so cheap. I know that CF bits for my
>motorcycle tend to be two or three times as expensive as non-CF bits...
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Alex,

The camera IS plastic! It is not made from Carbon Fibre. Agree with 
all you said about CF being an excellent material.

Ah! Another biker :-) Do you have one of those wonderful Ducatis?

Cheers,
        Clive