Re: WTB Calumet back springs

Burke and James Grover (flat bed) and Saturn (hex monorail) 
5x7 models.
darkroommike

Richard Knoppow wrote:
> "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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