--- Uptown Gallery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ..snip.. I intended to take a few > measurements from it to > show me how a film holder fits a view camera. ..snip.. > Well, I learned it has a Polaroid back. If they > never shot 'conventional' ..snip..
Thank your friend nicely for saving the camera from the dumpster. I hate it when that happens. A couple of thoughts; I've been working on building some 4x5 backs. First, is the old camera a speed or crown graflex, as opposed to the older SLR graflexes (these usually have tall folding viewing hoods on the top). The old SLR graflexes mostly used a non-standard (or at least, not the modern standard) film holder, so they'd be poor candidates for measurements, unless they'd been modified. With a polaroid back, it's probably a speed or a crown; I've got a polaroid 4x5 back, and while it'll give you an idea of how a film holder is shaped, parts of it are a little different (I built my first 4x5 back around a film holder, then got a polaroid 4x5 back and discovered it had a bump the film holder didn't have, so it didn't fit in my back! >From the fiddling I've done, if you're going to build a 4x5 back, you'll find it a lot easier to have a recent 4x5 film holder to look at and build models around than a set of measurements. I actually glued up my first back (I'm working on a better design for my second) around a film holder covered in saran wrap, to make sure it fit! -- pw __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Cameramakers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rmp.opusis.com/mailman/listinfo/cameramakers
