tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573193546035756071.post6896730778102303983..comments2024-03-21T07:30:48.866+00:00Comments on Photo-Analogue: Recent Glass Plate Work - part twoUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573193546035756071.post-87908902757820044162013-08-01T07:30:46.026+01:002013-08-01T07:30:46.026+01:00As I've found, different plate holders by diff...As I've found, different plate holders by different makers are not necessarily interchangeable. I've found at least four different types of 6x9cm holders- often it's the rim or lip around the edge of the holder that makes them incompatible. I have some holders with a single lip which fit both my Ica Icarette and Wallace Heaton cameras, but the 'double lip' Ica holders will only fit the Ica camera. I also have a Glunz camera which takes plate holders without a lip or rim at all. I think holders got more standardised post-war.Nicholas Middletonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09069364566487735897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573193546035756071.post-55863143703279789712013-07-29T19:22:54.600+01:002013-07-29T19:22:54.600+01:00A question: with different plate cameras, but a co...A question: with different plate cameras, but a common plate size, do all plate holders fit every camera or is that too naive to expect. For example, would Zeiss 6x9cm holders fit a Houghton Butcher Cameo 6x9cm camera? Any ideas?MattBolex7https://www.blogger.com/profile/03665843397954325241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573193546035756071.post-36600653851531886082013-06-26T12:43:51.655+01:002013-06-26T12:43:51.655+01:00I've got a 116 format Zeiss Ikon Cocarette tha...I've got a 116 format Zeiss Ikon Cocarette that I've converted to take 120 film, not having any backing paper, but there's a few problems with it I've yet to resolve. However 120 in a 116 camera does give a nice long-format negative.<br />The Ensign Folding Klito I picked up for I think £32, which seemed very reasonable for a relatively high-spec plate camera of its time.Nicholas Middletonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09069364566487735897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573193546035756071.post-28162656927576338382013-06-21T14:45:39.269+01:002013-06-21T14:45:39.269+01:00My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic 25 - which ...My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic 25 - which I still have. I put a film through it lately and it does still work. Thanks for the link earlier for the Harman odd film size special order, as I was able to order some 70mm wide HP5 that will fit my marvellously named Houghton Butcher Ensign Carbine Tropical Model. I have some C41 neg for this camera and have two old Kodak Verichrome Pan 116 size papers that I laboriously re-roll and get expensively processed. It does produce lovely pictures, and is a beautifully made camera, but if I can process and print bw pictures for free, it might make it a bit more usable. I am impressed by your glass plate images, and the sensible approach of buying a plate camera for smaller sizes, rather than trying to find 5x4 plates. I recently bought two boxes of 4.75x6.75inch HP3 film, and it works perfectly. I bought these as sealed and luckily they were, and the results are nearly perfect. But I have to stick the film into my 5x7 darkslides using rolled bits of masking tape! Works a treat!MattBolex7https://www.blogger.com/profile/03665843397954325241noreply@blogger.com