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Newbie Question ....film related
So, I am sitting here with a large format field camera procurred from school and I can't for the life of me figure out if I am supposed to load the film holder into the camera from the left or the right. If I load it from the left I would be loading it on the side that the spring (metal bar that bends a bit) holding the glass on starts on and is screwed to the camera, if I load it from the right it would be the side that the spring doesn't physically reach. Which side should I be loading it from? Please save me from a bunch of destroyed film. I've searched the web over and can find no answers. Thanks |
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Newbie Question ....film related
wrote in message ps.com... So, I am sitting here with a large format field camera procurred from school and I can't for the life of me figure out if I am supposed to load the film holder into the camera from the left or the right. If I load it from the left I would be loading it on the side that the spring (metal bar that bends a bit) holding the glass on starts on and is screwed to the camera, if I load it from the right it would be the side that the spring doesn't physically reach. Which side should I be loading it from? Please save me from a bunch of destroyed film. I've searched the web over and can find no answers. Thanks Depands on the camera! ... Look at the surface of the camera that will mate with the film holder-- at the top and bottom (the long dimensions of the film), there should be some sort of guides/ridges that hold the film holder in place. Does this ridge/guide extend along one end? If so, the holder is inserted from the other end and fits against these ridges/guides on three sides. Look at the frame around the ground glass focus screen. One side of it may be designed flared out to "guide" the film holder into place. That is the side the holder is insertd into. Try inserting the film holder one each way. In one direction it may fit more securely than the other direction. If none of these suggestions help, then assume that the camera was designed for a right-hand world, and insert the film holder in from the right, as determined when looking at the focus screen. |
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Newbie Question ....film related
wrote in message ps.com... So, I am sitting here with a large format field camera procurred from school and I can't for the life of me figure out if I am supposed to load the film holder into the camera from the left or the right. If I load it from the left I would be loading it on the side that the spring (metal bar that bends a bit) holding the glass on starts on and is screwed to the camera, if I load it from the right it would be the side that the spring doesn't physically reach. Which side should I be loading it from? Please save me from a bunch of destroyed film. I've searched the web over and can find no answers. Thanks The side of the back the film holder goes into should have a lip, the other side will be flat. There are few backs that will allow loading from the wrong side. The back of virtually all view cameras can be turned in some fashion. Most are held in by some sort of catches so they can be oriented vertically or horizontally, some are mounted so they can be rotated at will. This allows you to put the loading side wherever you want it. Do you know what kind of camera this is? -- --- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles, CA, USA -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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Thanks I managed to figure it out with the descriptions you two gave. |
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Newbie Question ....film related
wrote in message oups.com... Thanks I managed to figure it out with the descriptions you two gave. Have fun with it. LF is not quite like anything else. I wish I knew of a good tutorial on the web, perhaps someone else does. If you have access to a good public library you might check on whether they have any older photography books. In particular I suggest any of the _Graphic Graflex Photography_ series. These were issued about yearly for a couple of decades. While they are mainly aimed at using Speed Graphic press cameras they do have a section on view cameras (which Graflex also made) and a fair amount on the handling of sheet film. There are also a couple of good books about view cameras, in particular the ones by Steve Simmons and Leslie Stroebel, both wrote excellent books about the use of view cameras. Amazon probably has these, they are not too old. Both explain the use of the vaious tilts and shifts which are the hall-mark of these cameras. -- --- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles, CA, USA -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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You got it from school and they didn't show you how to insert the film holder? They did, it was just one of those little details that flew my mind. At least I remembered to close the lens ;-) I'll check out the books. |
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