[LargeFormat] Plate Holders

[Achal Pashine]

Uncle Dick,
I forget the make, but my Dad has English folding field camera (purchased by
his Dad in 1920-30s) which has two wooden plate holders (4 shots). Since the
plates are unavailable (?), he uses today's 4X5 sheet film placed on the
vintage clear glass plates to preserve focusing distance, and it works well.
-achal


----- Original Message -----
From: "rstein" <rstein@bigpond.net.au>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 6:33 AM
Subject: [LargeFormat] Plate Holders


> Dear Friends,
>
>      Perusing a new purchase - that's reading a book, folks - I noted a
> section that dealt with the plate-film cameras of the 1900-1920 period.
All
> those lovely old English and German folding cameras with focussing rails,
> ground glasses, and geared movements. Some excellent lenses. too.
>
>      All for plate or cut film in adapter. Plates are never seen around
here
> and cut film seems to be 4 x 5 only. But that is not the nub of this
query.
>
>      What I was curious about was how many of these older cameras - not
the
> pre-1900 field or studio types - are seen with the plate backs. I have
seen
> a number that seem to have rollfilm adapters and some with only the ground
> glass, but so far very few with plate holders. Even in the case of one
> Voightlander with a very beautiful geared front standard and nickle
plating
> everywhere, there was only one holder.
>
>      Did the photographers of the day venture out with a number of plate
> holders ready-loaded as we might do with double dark slides? How many did
> they carry? Did they reload in the feild in dark bags? Where have all the
> plate holders gone to?
>
>      Questions on the back of an envelope, please.
>
>      Uncle Dick
>
>
>
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