Carbon Infinity View Camera
Angus Noble and Adrian Thompson designed the Carbon Infinity as the first 4x5 large format camera made from all carbon fibre components. Eighty-five percent of this camera is made of carbon fiber, the other materials are titanium and aluminium alloy. It was unique in its ability to fold like a field camera into its own compact carbon fiber base yet achieves all the movements found in monorail cameras.
ND Cirkut Camera
This camera design is an updated version of cameras produced by Kodak in 1904 up to around 1949. The original Kodak ‘Cirkut’ cameras where clockwork driven and would take panoramic negatives of 10 inches wide by several feet long.
This new version of the camera is driven by 3 stepper motors controlled with custom software from a laptop or smartphone. It uses 9.5 inch aerial film in colour and B&W.
The camera has 4 mirrors to fold the light path and keep the camera compact. Two of the mirrors are controlled by a motor for focusing. Focus can be programmed to change as the camera is rotating. The lens unit has rise and fall and can also be positioned at a lens nodal point axis, this eliminates distortion as the camera rotates
The film is loaded in a light tight cartridge and is advanced onto a spool on the take up side. When exposed the film is wound back into the cartage. The speed of camera rotation and film advance can all be programmed in the controller. As the film is exposed through a slit, the negative maintains complete sharpness from side to side
Here is a great book about the history of the Cirkut camera
