What is this 8x10

**alavergh** · 9-Jan-2015, 23:14

What can you tell me about this camera? I'm considering purchasing it, but I want to see what I should look for when I'm there in person.mit doesn't seem to have any branding and the website doesn't have a brand either. I do know that it has a 4x5 reducing back.

**Oren Grad** · 9-Jan-2015, 23:18

Looks home-brew to me.

**alavergh** · 9-Jan-2015, 23:28

That's what I was thinking, from the inside edges of the front standard and no brand.

Where would the metal pieces come from? A donor, or is it common to actually make this stuff?

Oh! And from this, can anybody take a guess at what kind of lens boards it might use?

**angusparker** · 9-Jan-2015, 23:38

Originally Posted by alavergh

That's what I was thinking, from the inside edges of the front standard and no brand.

Where would the metal pieces come from? A donor, or is it common to actually make this stuff?

Oh! And from this, can anybody take a guess at what kind of lens boards it might use?

Sinar for lensboard is my guess, much less likely Toyo, seems to be too small for Linhof.

**mdarnton** · 9-Jan-2015, 23:45

Looks like a B&J Grover view to me, maybe a later one than this:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/camera...39554/sizes/o/

**Oren Grad** · 10-Jan-2015, 00:02

Originally Posted by mdarnton

Looks like a B&J Grover view to me, maybe a later one than this:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/camera...39554/sizes/o/

Good catch, looks like you're right. A Google image search turns up more Grover variants that show an even closer match to various of the components.

**koh303** · 10-Jan-2015, 06:16

It is a grover 8X10, that has been painted black, and the wood stripped and stained.
The reducer board is for 4X4 boards.
The original size board is a standard 6X6 shared by many camera makes.

**William Whitaker** · 10-Jan-2015, 07:24

Definitely Burke & James. For a minute I thought that was the ugliest camera I'd ever seen. Then I remembered an 8x10 Burke & James I had once where someone had painted the bellows with gold spray paint (maybe they had gold on hand because they were huffing. Whatever...) I called it the "Liberace" 'cause it was definitely the bling king. Now that was the ugliest camera I've ever seen!

**djdister** · 10-Jan-2015, 08:53

Perhaps it has been cannibalized from a B&J 8x10 Grover, but I don't think it is one in its entirety. Too many aspects deviate from the B&J build, like these show...