8x10 to 5x7 reducing back for Kodak Master

[Tony Karnezis]

I own an 8x10 Kodak Master. I have a 4x5 Burke & James reducing back and would like to buy a 5x7 reducing back. Does anyone know if Ansco 5x7 reducing backs fit? I understand the best way to be sure is to measure all the back's dimensions including the pin-to-pin distances. But I'm wondering if, like the B&J backs, the Anscos are supposed to fit as well. Specifically, I'm asking about this back because there's one for sale on ebay. Thanks.

[william linne]

I don't think they fit. I tried the 5x7 reducing back from B&J once in Adolf Gasser's and it didn't fit. The ones specifically made for the camera do come up on ebay quite frequently.

[Ted Harris]

Contact Richard Ritter at www.lg4mat.net, or call him on the phone. If the back you own is close Richard can probably adapt it for you at a very reasonable price.

[Michael Kadillak]

I own an 8x10 Kodak Master. I have a 4x5 Burke & James reducing back and would like to buy a 5x7 reducing back. Does anyone know if Ansco 5x7 reducing backs fit? I understand the best way to be sure is to measure all the back's dimensions including the pin-to-pin distances. But I'm wondering if, like the B&J backs, the Anscos are supposed to fit as well. Specifically, I'm asking about this back because there's one for sale on ebay. Thanks.

Contact me Tony as when I cleaned out the darkroom I found a mint Kodak Master 5x7 reducing back for the 8x10 camera that is for sale.

Michael Kadillak

[John Kasaian]

Tony,

FWIW, None of the Agfa/Ansco backs I've seen attach via conventional pins, but snap in using spring tabs that snap onto the brass fittings on the the back

[Geary Lyons]

Michael,
If the OP is not interested, I may be. Pease PM me.

Cheers,
Geary

[Erik Lauritzen]

Is this Kodak Master an 8x10 2D?

[Mark Sampson]

The Kodak 8x10 Master View Camera (its full name) is a quite different camera than the 2D. Some people call it the "metal Deardorff". It was made c.1948-56, after the 2D was discontinued. The backs are not compatible, as far as I know.