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

[Marco Pauck <pauck@xxxxxx>]

Marco Pauck wrote:
> 
> 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 ... ;-)

Oh, I forgot: Check this for some more info:

http://www.pauck.de/archive/mailinglist/htdig/htsearch.cgi?words=horizon+205pc&config=mailinglist

	Marco
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