Hi - I have just joined the LF ranks through buying a Kodak Specialist 3 half plate camera and would be grateful for some guidance on one or two things.
The camera came with a number of accessories, one of which was described as a repeating back. This is around 14 inches and locks on to the camera either landscape or portrait, and has a rectangular hole in the centre of 2" by 3". There is a sliding ground glass/dds holder, which can be locked in position anywhere along the length of the back and that seems to take a film holder of 115mm width and the length from the base to the retaining slot is approx 170mm.
Question 1 - what would this normally be used for?
Question 2 - does anyone know what size of dds/film this is meant for? It is much too small for the half plate DDSs that I had supplied with the camera, and when I took it into a local camera shop it was slightly too small in width for the 4x5 holders that they had.
The other thing is that half plate film seems to be unavailable here in the UK and I have read that people are commonly cutting down 5x7 film. Either that or using 5x7 holders but they seem to be in very short supply. Can anyone give me pointers on how best to do the cutting down?
The format seems ideal for producing good sized contact prints but the shortage of film is a bit of a problem!
Thanks in anticipation.
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