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WTB 4x5" Film Holders. Lite-tight, please!

If you have this I want it!

Henry should have dozens! PM him ...

Michael Palero wrote:WTB 4x5" Film Holders. Lite-tight, please!

If you have this I want it!

You can get them new from Calumet Photo. Don't know what they go for, but I'm betting they're not cheap.

There are thousands of 4X5 film holders not being used anymore. eBay? Make sure you buy yourself a cleaning brush to be used each time before you load your film holders. After you pull out the slide, use it to tap the holder before making your exposure to knock any dust off of the film.

My son's photo teacher shoots 7 by 17 cm sheet film in her special view camera. That film has to be custom cut by Kodak these days. The film she shot over the Xmas break in China cost her $10,000 ... before processing!

But she's up at the top of her field of Art Photography ... check out her Resume!

http://www.loisconner.net/

... of course Art is so subjective.

Bob Beamesderfer wrote:You can get them new from Calumet Photo. Don't know what they go for, but I'm betting they're not cheap.

Hah. I was in Samy's Saturday, and the holders they had on sale were priced at $61.

Makofoto wrote:There are thousands of 4X5 film holders not being used anymore. eBay? Make sure you buy yourself a cleaning brush to be used each time before you load your film holders. After you pull out the slide, use it to tap the holder before making your exposure to knock any dust off of the film.

I was wondering, since Elan 7e and some other 35mm cameras use infrared light to determine roll size without fogging film, does the same apply to 4x5 sheets?

Makofoto wrote:my son's photo teacher shoots 7 by 17 cm sheet film in her special view camera. That film has to be custom cut by Kodak these days. The film she shot over the Xmas break in China cost her $10,000 ... before processing!

So what was that, was that 1/2 a dozen? or a full dozen? =P
and I thought *I* was a machine gunner...


Check out this 7x17cm view camera from ShenHao. A couple guys in my large format have ShenHaos-- they're pretty cool cameras compared to the lab cameras.

I was wondering, since Elan 7e and some other 35mm cameras use infrared light to determine roll size without fogging film, does the same apply to 4x5 sheets?

Sheet film has a notched code on the edge, but it isn't read by the camera and processing is done by hand so it's not used by a machine to determine emulsion/film speed.

I was looking view camera prices a while back and the cameras didn't seem that expensive, but the lenses and film holders have gone up a lot since the '70s.

I have a bunch of 4x5 film holders. How many do you need? $10 per.

Willy