I see these older European camera and film holder sizes all the time but it's never been clear to me whether some are universally with 4x5, 5x7, and 8x10 film or whether they distinctly different, at least for post WW2 items?
I understand that pre-WW2 9x12 cameras are clearly 9x12-cm and not able to use 4x5-inch holders. But everything else is murky from there on out.
For example, there is a late 1950s Linhof Kardan 18x24 on eBay - will that take a common 8x10 Elite-Fidelity holder? Or would you have to find or cut 18x24 film and find holders?
Did Linhof make separate backs for all these cameras and just swap them depending on their markets?
When did it all consolidate into the Imperial sizes?
And for contemporary European photographers - outside of EFKE selling a little 9x12 film, you guys "think" in Imperial sizes even though everything else is Metric? You go into the store and ask for 5x4 or what?
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