Plate Holders

[jdanforth]

I have modified a bunch of 8×10 Lisco film holders to accept dag plates. This works perfectly well unless I want to use my big-momma 8×10 plates that I’ve been making recently. Up until now all of my 8×10 dags have been contact prints but I want to do some in-camera 8×10 work.

I don’t think that I’ll be able to squeeze an 8×10 plate into an 8×10 holder. Has anyone tried?

[botticelli1972]

You might just have to step up to 11 x 14 to fit a true 8×10 plate. I have made my own film holders using the information in the book titled Primitive Photography: a guide to making cameras, lenses and calotypes by Alan Greene. It has plans for all sorts of cameras, lenses and holders. It has a wet plate bent but the ideas are easily modified for dag plates.

[jdanforth]

botticelli1972 wrote:You might just have to step up to 11 x 14 to fit a true 8×10 plate. I have made my own film holders using the information in the book titled Primitive Photography: a guide to making cameras, lenses and calotypes by Alan Greene. It has plans for all sorts of cameras, lenses and holders. It has a wet plate bent but the ideas are easily modified for dag plates.

Great… just what I need is a BIGGER camera!

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