18 Apr
2004
18 Apr
'04
8:06 p.m.
Hi,
ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) said:
I am not sure if plates (that's what we call them in the UK) are still
made. However, sheet film certainly is, and you can back it with a piece
of _flat_ glass or similar. I think there used to be proper converters to
load sheet film into plate cameras.
There still are, any profeesional camera supplier can supply.
They can offer you a wide variety of new plate cameras as well...
I keep thinking about getting a new 5x4 field camera - in rosewood,
I think. 10x8 would be beter, but those things a big!
I still use my old Rolleiflexes and Reid (a high quality English Leica
copy), but I've been using digital since I got my Apple Quicktake
100 - nearly 10 years ago so almost on topic :-)
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb(a)dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
That's smaller than the _film_ size I want to
use. Seriously, I have a
few 5*4" sheet film cameras. Perhaps that's why I don't think digital
cameras have even marginally useable resolution.
I don't suppose you happen to know about the availability of
materials for a camera that expects to shoot to glass slides? I'll