Re: rumors of new medium format horizon? RE: Horizon 202

[Marco Pauck <pauck@xxxxxx>]

Robert Monaghan wrote:
> 
> Within the last few months, I have seen a posted note about a planned
> medium format version of the Horizon series, but no followup on any of
> the logical groups (kiev88 etc. newsgroups)...
> 
> has anyone heard about such possible new medium format versions of the
> Horizon? Granted all the issues with Q/C, but a new lower cost swing lens
> camera has its attractions ;-)

Citing from by Horizon page:

"The larger cousin of the Horizon 202 is the 205PC that uses
medium format film (120) and also includes a shift lens 3.5/50mm
which covers an image format of 55x110mm. However, this model
doesn't seem to have productions status yet. Only a few models
were shown on fairs and even fewer have been sold. (NB: A similar
faith has the Kiev 90 (the to-be successor of the Kiev 88) that
has kept the prototype status over several years, probably due to
severe design or manufacturing problems. Considering the problems
that are existing even for long-term production models such as
the Kiev 88 this implies nothing good ...)."

I actually had one of these beasts in my hands some months ago.
It was (as you may expect ;-) huge and heavy but it was also
quite expensive (can't remember exactly how much). The dealer
said that it's more a 'collector's item'. That probably meant
that it didn't work at all ... ;-)

	Marco
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