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WTB Calumet back springs
Burke and James Grover (flat bed) and Saturn (hex monorail)
5x7 models. darkroommike Richard Knoppow wrote: "iga" wrote in message ... Thank yoy very much, Richard ! Could you please list less known old 5x7 cameras ? Thanks, Igor http://www.arrakis.es/~igapop Boy, I don't know where to start. 5x7 was a widely used size up to maybe 25 years ago. Most of the view camera makers made cameras in this size and all provided reducing backs for larger cameras. Names which come to mind immediately a Agfa/Ansco Universal View (in 5x7) and reducing back for the 8x10 Commercial View Kodak 2D, made in several sizes with reducing backs for the larger ones. Korona Deardorf I think Linhof made a 5x7 and had reducing backs. Calumet reducing back for the 8x10 C-2 Speed Graphic and Graflex SLR until about 1940. I am pretty sure Sinar made a 5x7 version. Probably some English and continental camera makers. 5x7 is very nearly "full plate" size. Such sizes and metric sizes were popular and 5x7 was close enough to allow its used with relatively minor modifications to the dimensions of the back. I am sure others following this group can add makes of cameras I've forgotten. Curiously enough 5x7 was really considered medium format at one time, large format meant 8x10, 11x14, and even 16x20 cameras. Up to at least the 1950's a surprizing amount of advertising and commercial work was done with 11x14 cameras. These are now in demand by photographers doing fine art photography for printing on alternative printing processes. Film improved so much that the detail and grain of a negative now is probably comparable to one perhaps of four times the area or even more when compared to the films of the 1950's. So, 5x7 was essentially replaced by 4x5. The CC-400 was so widely used that it should be possible to find parts for it even if Calumet can't help. |
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On Jul 17, 7:58 am, "Richard Knoppow"
wrote:... I had forgotten these I think B&J also made a monorail Grover camera in several sizes.... Yes they did. They are hex monorails with mahagony boxes. Hardware was steel and later aluminum. I have two around for a rainy day...need bellows work...Roger |
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