[LargeFormat] Kodak Specialist Model 2 half-plate camera

[Clive Warren]

At 9:44 am -0800 20/12/00, Les Newcomer wrote:
>
>Clive Warren wrote:
>>
>>  At 11:33 am -0600 17/12/00, Lee Carmichael wrote:
>>  >work.  I join Pam in wanting to see this camera.
>>  >
>>  >>At 10:12 am -0600 17/12/00, Pam Niedermayer wrote:
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>  > >>>backs? I'd love to see some photos of it.
>  >
>>  Well you are in luck! I have just posted some photos of the camera on
>>  the f32 Discussion Forum:
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>  > http://www.f32.net/cgi-local/discus/show.cgi?5/37
>
>
>But separated by a large pond things evolved differently over there and
>somebody at Kodak UK seems to have taken the better parts of the
>monorail and put them on the 2D. Very nice find!
>
>On a similar note, I'm now confused about the whole whole-plate thing. I
>thought whole plate was 6 1/2x8 1/2,  1/2 plate would be 4 1/4x 6 1/2
>   and quarter plate was 3 1/4 x 4 1/4
>
>Is it possible that the backs aren't imperial but metric?  the 5x7 is
>really 12x17 cm?  I saw a while back somebody selling metric film
>holders and hangers.
>
>
>You might want to contact Todd Gustavson at George Eastman House.
>          "Todd Gustavson" <todd@geh.org>
>
>He's got a lot more toys than I do. He might have some literature or 
>something.
>
>Les

Thanks for the leads - will drop Todd a line and see if he knows 
anything about the camera.

The plate sizes you quote are nearly correct as far as I know. Half 
plate is 4 3/4" x 6 1/2" at least that is what is says on one of the 
Kodak (UK) plate holders that came with the camera :-)

The backs are definitely imperial - we didn't do metric in those 
halcyon days. The metric film sizes and holders seem to have been 
popular in Germay - Helge posted a lot of this information recently.

I have the metric versions of some 5x7 film holders for sale if 
anyone is interested - contact me off the list. Film is still sold in 
these sizes in parts of Europe and presumably camera backs are 
constructed slightly differently.

Guess it could be possible to end up with a plate camera back with 
imperial film holders and metric film ;-)
-- 
All the best,

             Clive Warren   http://www.f32.net
                            Large Format travel and stock photography