Hi all!
I'd love to work in Whole Plate,* but at best, I can only afford to build a light tight box that's about the right size. Film holders & spring backs are beyond me - I just don't have the skills or tools to make them. I had thought to buy a set & build a camera around them, but I understand that the film holders are expensive and rare. Is this so? I recall reading that each manufacturer made them to have the correct depth on only their own cameras, and they went out of production before an ANSI standard was developed.
For my purposes, I don't mind using plate holders, and sandwiching in film on top of an uncoated piece of glass. I would love to know what you all think before I commit a bunch of money to this foolish endeavor.
Will
*I blame Mike Johnston, he's very persuasive. More seriously, I'd love to work with contact prints, and I feel like 5x7 is a little small, and 8x10 cameras seem intimidatingly large. I'd do 8x8 square sheet x-ray film, but that brings me right back to building my own film holders, which seems beyond difficult, and well in to impossible. Plan C would be making digital negatives from 4x5.
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