Good morning Roy et al, www.minoxuk.co.uk is the UK website giving details of all of the currently available Minox products (optics, cameras, night vision...
... Submini Folks, Just a small point of trivia: before flexible film became available, most cameras did use glass plates. A plate holder for a view camera is...
Yes, using a true View Camera does take considerably more time than a roll film camera or, for that matter, the simpler plate cameras that were once known as...
... actually, it got the name because of its until-then relatively rare 1/1000 sec speed on the rear focal plane shutter. but press photogs could shoot quick...
SUBMINI-L@yahoogroups.com Let me jump in with a few comments here. First, I'm a self confessed Luddite, and proud of it. Like Don, I do what I can with...
... One of the earliest true submini cameras used a glass plate. The plate was circular, and the camera made (IIRC) 8 or 12 quarter inch diameter round images...
... Poppycock. Yes, those photographers were pros, but in 1938 they were using the front shutter, which most likely was press-type and didn't require cocking,...
... Heck, I've got an Ihagee Parvola that shoots 6.5X4 or 3X4 on 127, and it has a hatch on the back for a plate adapter which must have been 6X4.5. It's a...
Actually I think I remember reading that he didn't use both sides of the holders, for fear that in his excitement he'd accidentally double expose one. Mike...
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... poppycock yourself. I've read accounts of that event and they were shot with regular film holders, which were shot and delivered by messenger on ...
Not an argument from me...just a personal observation... One of the things I learned back in the 1960's, when I was just starting photography, was to think...
... I'm certain Grafmatics date from before WWII, though they were much more common in the 1950s. There were Grafmatics made for glass plates (have to watch...
... Only 30 Fps. Only slightly more chance to get a good shot than at 8 FPS, and you only would get 1080*749 resolution. Not good enough for a magazine photo...
I'm not sure who you mean. But speaking of the Hindenburg, it took a good 25 seconds for the fire to go through the ship, and more after that before it hit...
... yeah, the first drops the exposed septum back to the bottom of the stack, the second pulls the darkslide off the fresh film that is now in front, ready to ...
Not they way I remember graphmatic. The pull moved the used septum out of the way, it popped to the back, the push plopped it down on the back of the stack,...
... no, this will leave the new septum behind the dark slide - which takes another pull to move. It's set up so that one pull saves the shot frame and makes it...
No, it's not lonely, it's sold to someone who owned a 4X5 camera, years ago. Yes, as I remember prompted by your description, there was a little button that...
... Sounds as if a common modification might have been to remove the dark slides from all but the first septum to speed operation. There were other magazines...
No, as I remember it, the dark-slide was not part of the septum. The sliding-frame could be triggered to pull the dark-slide or not with a little chrome...
Instructions for the Grafmatic: http://graflex.org/speed-graphic/grafmatic/ I wonder how hard it would be to operate a Minox sized one... Stephen On Tue, 01...
It would depend on how big the handle was. The real question is, how hard would it be to load and unload the septums? SteveM ... [Non-text portions of this...
... I think the Compass Camera, manufactured in the 1930s by leCoultre would fit the bill. It was a 35mm plate film camera, with just about every feature ...
... may be, but ur still not getting it -- the whole thing only has one dark slide and 6 septums, the septums are stacked, each time you pull the drawer out it...
... as i said, it's a royal pain -- you have to fit each sheet of film into a relatively thin/flimsy septum, then stack all six and fit them in the drawer of ...
... Your memory is wrong. I use grafmatic backs (I got six of them) on my Globuscope 4X5 wide angle camera. They work just like CT says. Sam Shere was late for...
Personally, I find it fascinating that for years we have gravitated toward Large Format discussion. Perhaps this is a group that likes extremes? Anyway, let's...
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