Are there any modern tailboard cameras that have a back for modern film and plate holders.
It looks like Stenopeika has one but I was curious if there were others?
Are there any modern tailboard cameras that have a back for modern film and plate holders.
It looks like Stenopeika has one but I was curious if there were others?
Somebody has cornered all the metal Calumet C1 tailboard 8x10
Tin Can
A fine Bulgaria fellow by the name of Andrev Donchev & his father make largely wet plate cameras of the highest caliber but I'm sure he & his father could make a matching spring back w/ modern film holder specs. Check it out he even included the rail supports (like Koronas) & a detachable extra rails + very long bellows extension. it's 12x12 wet plate camera but that's cool & you could get an extra 10x12 spring back.https://wetplategear.wordpress.com/
Here's a photo of one of their modern spec spring backs on a different tailboard camera they built.https://wetplategear.wordpress.com/img_0311/
Here is a small one he & dad built for Alex Timmerman an outstanding wet plate artist.https://www.largeformatphotography.i...ra-has-arrived
Last edited by Louis Pacilla; 7-Jan-2021 at 20:32. Reason: add
Calumet c-1 is all metal tail board 8x10.
What is modern?
Mid Century Modern furniture was the 1950's
I now have 2 modern 1950's Wood Tailboard cameras
5X7 and 8X10
Their debut on LFPF is imminent
Last edited by Tin Can; 8-Jan-2021 at 07:01.
Tin Can
Does it have to be a tailboard -- several new non-folding cameras around except they fold up the front instead of the rear.
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B&J Rembrandt portrait camera, made through at least 1973. If that's "modern'.
Which were unwanted until I bought a 5X7 KEH 'UGLY' for a song and some noticed, KEH ramped up pricing
8X10 Rembrandts are very hard to find
My theory is, B&J made them so people had something to handle their heavy glass they sold or rented from their Lens Bank
Last edited by Tin Can; 8-Jan-2021 at 13:00.
Tin Can
+1 on a B&J Rembrandt...especially the Model 2 that folds.
I had an ugly, olive green 5x7 FS here, nobody wanted it, so I said "The heck with it" , and painted it Lake Placid Blue Metallic.
Now I have a Verito and a 300mm f4.5 Wollensak to use with it, (both in #5 shutters).
Also have a 4x5 back for it..
Last edited by Dugan; 8-Jan-2021 at 12:26. Reason: More cowbell
They came with Packard Shutter & sync with quick releases, so the shutter just pops out
I think some sell the shutter separately as I bought an almost brand new shutter with the telltale scratches that show where the clips went on
Slider backs also
Tin Can
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