Roger Hesketh
2-Feb-2013, 11:14
Is it possible please to use bookform holders with a Spring back?
I have a Deardorff 10x12 spring back. I have had it for a number of years but have never used it. I also have some 10x12 bookform holders, eight of them I think,which fit another camera .
That camera is a Vageeswari 10x12, which I have made a 10x8 reducing back for utilising a Gandolfi 10x8 back to do so. I have used that camera for 10x8 but not as yet for 10x12 use. I intend to do so soon making use of some 9 1/2 inch wide aerial film that I have. To do that I will need to make film sheaths.
The Deardorff back is too wide to fit the other camera so I am not in a position to test to see if it will work with the bookform holders which are incidentally exactly the right width to slip under the ground glass of the Deardorff back.
Has anybody done this please? Is it possible to use the bookform holders with a spring back? Would the registration distance be similar? If not any suggestions that you might have to correct the registration distance would be appreciated.
Any project involving the 10x12 spring back is still some way off but would like to know if any potential project is a non starter as I am not keen to buy different 10x12 holders as the advantages to me of using that back over the set up I already have are marginal. I bought the back intending to build a camera around it and then went and bought the Vageeswari camera as it was so relatively inexpensive.
I have a more pressing reason to ask if bookform holders are usable with a spring back. I have just managed to fix and get ready for use a Thornton Pickard Whole plate camera, It has a spring back for which I have no holders but bookform holders are potentially available.
It is not by any stretch of the imagination a pretty camera. I paid I think £20 for it some time ago but most people even now would consider that somebody had seen me coming and that I had been robbed. I will be looking during the next few weeks to make reducing backs for it 5x7 and 4x5 to use it in places and weather I would not necessarily look to use a nice camera. I have just replaced a broken track on a beat up Crown Graphic to use that in a similar way. I am keen to give whole plate a go too using film cut down from the aforementioned aerial film.
I live in the UK and my field cameras have on the whole stayed at home during this year. The wettest except one I believe since records began.
I have a Deardorff 10x12 spring back. I have had it for a number of years but have never used it. I also have some 10x12 bookform holders, eight of them I think,which fit another camera .
That camera is a Vageeswari 10x12, which I have made a 10x8 reducing back for utilising a Gandolfi 10x8 back to do so. I have used that camera for 10x8 but not as yet for 10x12 use. I intend to do so soon making use of some 9 1/2 inch wide aerial film that I have. To do that I will need to make film sheaths.
The Deardorff back is too wide to fit the other camera so I am not in a position to test to see if it will work with the bookform holders which are incidentally exactly the right width to slip under the ground glass of the Deardorff back.
Has anybody done this please? Is it possible to use the bookform holders with a spring back? Would the registration distance be similar? If not any suggestions that you might have to correct the registration distance would be appreciated.
Any project involving the 10x12 spring back is still some way off but would like to know if any potential project is a non starter as I am not keen to buy different 10x12 holders as the advantages to me of using that back over the set up I already have are marginal. I bought the back intending to build a camera around it and then went and bought the Vageeswari camera as it was so relatively inexpensive.
I have a more pressing reason to ask if bookform holders are usable with a spring back. I have just managed to fix and get ready for use a Thornton Pickard Whole plate camera, It has a spring back for which I have no holders but bookform holders are potentially available.
It is not by any stretch of the imagination a pretty camera. I paid I think £20 for it some time ago but most people even now would consider that somebody had seen me coming and that I had been robbed. I will be looking during the next few weeks to make reducing backs for it 5x7 and 4x5 to use it in places and weather I would not necessarily look to use a nice camera. I have just replaced a broken track on a beat up Crown Graphic to use that in a similar way. I am keen to give whole plate a go too using film cut down from the aforementioned aerial film.
I live in the UK and my field cameras have on the whole stayed at home during this year. The wettest except one I believe since records began.