[LargeFormat] Plate Holders

[Les Newcomer]

While that  bit of history lesson was as accurate as my experience, things
were a bit different in England.

With makers like Watson, Sanderson, and Gandolfi not very far away,
standardizing film holders may have taken a bit longer.  A friend of mine
bought a 1940ish Watson and it still used mahogany and brass holders and th=
e
ground glass flipped up instead of pulling back.

Still I would have expected any monorail to use common film holders

Les

> From: "philip.lambert" <philip.lambert@ntlworld.com>
> Reply-To: largeformat@f32.net
> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 22:59:20 -0000
> To: <largeformat@f32.net>
> Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Plate Holders
>=20
> Thanks Les. I had a quarter-plate Thornton Pickard single lens reflex usi=
ng
> plates 3.25 by 4.25" and I thought that was a modest size of neg. Halfpla=
te
> (6.5 by 4.25) was serious stuff but expensive. The old TP had a 6 inch
> Triotar f4.5. I think the lens board could slide up half an inch;  I had =
no
> idea what for (I found out since). I think the shutter release first rais=
ed
> the mirror and then fired the roller blind.  I sold it for fifteen pounds
> which was a week's wages.    Downhill all the way to 16mm after that unti=
l
> some retired professional showed me the error of my ways, sold me my firs=
t
> Linhof.   I have stored your advice on being careful what to buy. Folmer =
and
> Schwing I never saw yet but the other 2 turn up. There's a nice De Vere 5=
x4
> with a 180mm Symmar for =A3800 being sold at Vulture Photos. That's about
> $1100: monorails are usually cheap in the UK.  Old Tropical Sandersons ar=
e
> really nice in mahogany (?) but they fetch collector-level prices and I
> would not dare to use one for fear of devaluing the "investment".  I saw =
a
> nice big Kodak Monorail going cheapish but it weighed a ton and there wer=
e
> no cutfilm holders visible. Philip
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Les Newcomer" <lnphoto@twmi.rr.com>
> To: <largeformat@f32.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 7:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Plate Holders
>=20
>=20
>> the 9x12 film holders I have are single sheet and won't come close to
>> fitting a common camera.
>>=20
>> 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 we=
ll
>> --- 4*x6*.
>>=20
>> Now whole plate is a useableformat. The holders are hard to find, glass
>> plate holders with septums inside are the cheapest, true film holders ru=
n
>> $30 each. I've managed to aquire a few Hoffmans.
>>=20
>> Be carefull of turn of the century view cameras not made by either Folme=
r
> &
>> 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.
>>=20
>=20
>=20
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