Show off your Large Format camera!

[diversey]

They do look similar!

You were a little cuter and a lot geekier in those days. But, (except for the hair), seemed to have aged well.
W.

[mdarnton]

I wish I'd thought to paint mine black when I had it! That looks much better.

Just took my first test shots after refinishing this beauty. B&J 5x7. I sanded it all down to remove three coats of the ugliest battleship grey (last coat was sprayed on everything), the wood just didn't look good enough to leave natural, so it's now black and chrome like my 4x5 Speed Press.

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[MIke Sherck]

I have one of the fancy version 5x7s, also, in perfect shape, the matching tripod, and a split back for that in addition to the usual 5x7 back. The 8x10 came as a bag of sticks from someone's basement that I bought based on very poor Ebay photos. Nothing was damaged, but I had to glue everything back together. It's a very clever camera--I particularly like the integrated extension track.

If the extension rail slides out from the back instead of being a separate piece that screws on then you likely have one of the Agfa/Ansco models. Very similar, better built but a bit heavier. My first LF camera.

Mike

[mdarnton]

The "fancy" one is from the one or two years where they had chromed knobs and tracks and a grey paint job, before they went to plastic knobs. 1942 or something like that. I think they all have the pull-out track, from day one right to the end. Or at least that's the commonest model. The one from the high school shot was the decadent version--plastic knobs, and a slotted stay on the back for back tilt.

Here's a picture of my brother, using it she studio 8x10 to make slide dupes, c1966. Big Kodatron flash at the back, Miranda something at the front (He had a D, then a Dr, an F, and finally a couple of black Gs, but this is probably an F, based on the lens):




Jim Making Slide Dupes, 1966
by Michael Darnton, on Flickr

[Corran]

Here is me with my Chamonix 45n1 and 21cm APO Lanthar setting up the shot I posted a couple of weeks ago:



That's right at the edge of a dam with flood-stage water rushing by .

[John keys]

Some of my Large format family, Cambo 5x4 rail, MPP mark8 5x4, Sinar P 10x8 and a Wooden late 1800s 10x8

[Ramiro Elena]

Those are very cool

[David Lobato]

My 11x14 this morning in Houston.

[Roger Thoms]

My 11x14 this morning in Houston.

David, what camera is this?

Roger

[Ken Lee]

Looks like a Kodak 2D... the biggest one I've ever seen