Thanks Richard !
I've received e-mail from Calumet - they have springs in stock for $6.99
each.
Best regards,
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Igor
http://www.arrakis.es/~igapop
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> "iga" <igapop@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > 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 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
> Los Angeles, CA, USA
> dickburk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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