[LargeFormat] Plate Holders

[Les Newcomer]

the 9x12 film holders I have are single sheet and won't come close to
fitting a common camera.

I've got a firend in England that got an interesting English Kodak View
camera that looks like a better built 2D. I'm pretty sure  dimensions where
just off enough so that you couldn't use a common 5x7 holder and kodak
didn't make a 5x7 back for it.  he also got the quarter plate back as well
--- 4*x6*.

Now whole plate is a useableformat. The holders are hard to find, glass
plate holders with septums inside are the cheapest, true film holders run
$30 each. I've managed to aquire a few Hoffmans.

Be carefull of turn of the century view cameras not made by either Folmer &
Schwing, Century or Kodak.  These three used what is now the standard
holder. Other manufacturers did different things and spare holders would be
impossible to get.

> From: "philip.lambert" <philip.lambert@ntlworld.com>
> Reply-To: largeformat@f32.net
> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 18:18:03 -0000
> To: <largeformat@f32.net>
> Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Plate Holders
> 
> Les,
> 
> I did ask earlier and no-one replied. "Is a 9x12 darkslide the same external
> dimensions as 5x4?"  Does a 5x4 darkslide fit a 9x12 camera back? Same
> question really. I have seen a few 9x12 prewar bellows cameras going cheap
> but assumed they were impractical.  Similarly has anyone measured a
> halfplate plateholder?  Is it externally different to 5x7?  I came across a
> whole plate Kodak bellows camera in mahogany with no lens board. My 305mm
> would easily cover 8.5x6.5 ins but there were no cutfilm or plate holders.
> It weighed a lot less than my former 10x8 Sinar (later melted down and made
> into an oil tanker ......)  Philip
> 
> From: "Les Newcomer" <lnphoto@twmi.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Plate Holders
> 
>> I have a plate holder adapter for a big kodak folder.  I also have a feind
>> that has a Jewl or juel,  well it's a jewel but spelled differently. Both
> of
>> these cameras use single plate holders made of brass. there were sheet
> film
>> versions of the same thing.
>> 
>> I've got Klapp Reflex with several of these single holders in 9x12 cm.
>> 
>> I also ended up some how with some single film  holders that are slightly
>> smaller than 6x9cm. Again out of brass.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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