Okay - I've been playing around with 5x7 now for 3 weeks, and done perhaps a dozen photographs and the same amount of paper negatives. Verdict? I just LOVE the format. I've done contact print, digital conversions, but so far no enlarging.
Question: I'm liking this format so much that I might add a wooden field camera in this size perhaps next year. I know that there are reducing backs, but I'm wondering (here's the stupid question) has anybody ever made a REDUCING FILM HOLDER, ie a 5x7 sized holder that will hold a 4x5 sheet film?
Reason? I'm simply not EVER going to have the space for a 5x7 enlarger. I already have a 4x5. I figure that having access to a couple of reducing film holders might allow me to take a few along if I do a scene that ought to be enlarged rather than contact printed. Reducing back is of course the solution but that limits camera selection and is going to be more expensive, as well as taking up valuable time in the field switching backs. Ya might lose that light!
I'm thinking it might be possible also, to modify a 5x7 holder to take 4x5 film. Anybody ever done this? Perhaps a stopper of some kind and markings on the ground glass?
Bookmarks