"iga" <igapop@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Thank yoy very much, Richard !
> Could you please list less known old 5x7 cameras ?
> Thanks,
> Igor
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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 are:
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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Richard Knoppow
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