Hello everyone,
A few years ago I was given a box with two wooden tailboard plate cameras, complete with lenses, 9x12 metal and 4x5 wooden plate holders (and assorted odds & ends). I'd actually love to shoot FILM with these but wouldn't know the first thing about converting them to take film holders.
Am I way off track or does anyone have any good ideas? - otherwise they'll go onto the auction block on evilbay (but I don't even know what they're worth).
Both have beautiful light-tight bellows (the one not pictured has red bellows), front rise/fall, shift and a touch of upwards base tilt, rear rise/fall, full axis tilt. The tailboards extend almost the full length.
The gg is 4x5 but marked off for 9x12.
One has a 6.3/105 mm Goertz doppelanastigmatic Citona mounted in an Ibsor D.R.P shutter(?), which seems to work at all speeds. The other is wearing a 7.7/170 mm Kodak anastigmatic mounted in a Kodak ball bearing shutter (EKC?) with Jan 18 1910 stamped on the side. The shutter needs work but fires at 25, 50 and B perfectly.
Included is a Steinheil Aplanat 14 with Waterhouse stops and a Steinheil 6/210 mm Unofocal that also has d=3.5 mm stamped on it.
They're just too classy to not use, but if I can't get film into them they're better off befriended by someone who shoots plate.
Can anyone help with this? I'd really love to use these cameras (or at least one of them).
I have more photos if needed.
Thanks in advance,
Johnny
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