Any use for a Film Pack Adapter today?

[Jac@stafford.net]

Any use for a Film Pack Adapter today?

I have a Busch 4x5" film pack adapter, OEM, in box and while I am slimming the unknowns in storage: Question - is there any use for it today? It appears to be rugged, well built... but... keepable?
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[Mark Sampson]

Kodak discontinued the last filmpack, 4x5 Tri-X 320, in about 1992. So there can't be much of it left. Can't imagine what use the adapter would be, although I've kept mine. I miss that film...

[Tin Can]

I think some have used them for wet plate holder.

Also good to mount on camera back to protect a FP shutter.

[Tin Can]

Also picture frame...

[Kirk Gittings]

Look online for a tutorial. They make good wetplate holders-converted a couple myself.

[Uncle Jim]

They can be made into ground glass holders. You would need to shim the glass out the thickness of the old metal film pack, and use something to keep the ground glass in place. This could be very handy for a camera that came with out a ground glass back such as an old Graflex or other old camera.

Keep Well
uncle jim

[Michael Cienfuegos]

I've been toying with the idea of using one to adapt a Fujifilm Instax Wide back to my Graflex SLR.

[Valdecus]

I'll be shooting my last pack of film with an old Graflex back soon. The film is slightly expired, though: it was already bad by the time the first man landed on the moon, Feb 1969.

Cheers
Andrew

[IanG]

On some cameras missing the focus back they can be adapted to make one.

I have quite a few, all useless

Ian

[Michael Cienfuegos]

On some cameras missing the focus back they can be adapted to make one.

I have quite a few, all useless

Ian

I have three: one Graflex back and two Graphic backs. The InstaxWide option seems to be the more interesting conversion right now, especially i light of Fuji discontinuing all their peel apart film.