[LargeFormat] Kodak Specialist Model 2 half-plate camera

[Clive Warren]

At 9:04 am +0000 19/12/00, philip Lambert wrote:
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Helge Nareid" <helge@nareid.demon.co.uk>
>Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2000 8:11 PM
>
>>  > I thought quarter plate was 4x5, half plate 5x7.
>>
>>  Not that simple, I'm afraid. I am in no way an expert in the history of
>>  plate/sheet film formats, but I am aware of at least three different
>  > systems.
>
>
>I once had a Thornton Pickard quarterplate single lens reflex with a 6 ins
>Triotar lens. The glass plates it took were 3.25x 4.25ins (and the rollfilm
>adapter gave 8 on a 120 roll size 2..25x3.25ins).  Philip


Now that's a possibility - a roll film back for quarter plate - I had 
no idea that these were made.  Do you remember any more about the 
adapter - make and how it worked?

Helge mentioned in her post that plates were used well into the 70s - 
they were certainly still in use in the 80s in some scientific labs. 
Who knows, maybe they are still in use today.....

Given that most sheet film is now only readily available in the more 
usual 4x5, 5x7 and 8x10 sizes in the UK, I am wondering if Kodak 
would have produced a 4x5 and 5x7 back for the Specialist Model 2 - 
it does seem likely. My model 2 seems to be a 1950s or 60s camera - 
going by the build and colour etc. Am keeping my fingers crossed that 
a couple of backs are going to appear at some point :-)

Anyway, a roll film holder would make the quarter plate back useful.





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