[rollei_list] Re: Plate Adapter and missing velvet
- From: dpurdy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:03:52 -0400 (EDT)
I am traveling right now but next week when I get home I am going to look
into the possiblility of converting a sheet film back into a "pressure
plate back" (my made up term) Thinking of it now it seems that the film
back would already nearly work as a pressure plate though I am not sure of
the clearance for the roll on the top spool without actually looking at
it.
Incidentally I have one other slightly different gadget for my film
inserts. One of them has a removable film holder that could be loaded with
film and then slid into place in the film back rather than sliding the
film alone into the back. It doesn't work very well as it gets hung up on
the edges when trying to put it in place. But perhaps I could put it in
backwards and it would work as a pressure plate.
Dennis
> I'd like to add that the magazine to use normal roll film with the plate
> back is also described by WD Emmanuel in his book Rolleiflex and
> Rolleicord
> from 1950, however it is not described in a similar book by the same
> author
> from 1966, He says (I translate from the Spanish that is a translation
> from
> the original English) :
>
> "Lid (cover) with pressure plate for roll-film":
> There are some lids with pressure guides to fit in the plate adapter back
> allowing to use normal film with spools avoiding to use two differents
> cameras back..." he explains that the roll film is loaded and advanced the
> same way regarding the standard camera back.
>
> I suspect this special magazine was manufactured up to 1954 when some
> changes were introduced for the plates adapter set, but since the parts
> were
> sold separately too you could find older parts in newer sets and in fact I
> think I have seen one of this magazines in e*** two or three years ago.
> Prochnow is brief too much in the Report I and 2 to describe the different
> components functions for the Plate Adapter and I'm not sure if he mentions
> this specific magazine, anyway I have no doubt it existed and it exists if
> Elias has one of them ( It seems yes).
> I guess like Dennis this magazine is rare today.-
>
> All the best
> Carlos
>
> 2007/3/15, CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> This is the source for the comment :
>> http://www.matthes.com/Rollei/Products/Late30s/Accessories.html#Plate
>>
>> All the best
>> Carlos
>>
>>
>> 2007/3/15, ERoustom <eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> >
>> > That sounds like it - thanks.
>> >
>> > In a day or so I'll post a picture of it the Rollei Flickr page.
>> >
>> >
>> > Elias
>> >
>> > On Mar 15, 2007, at 6:18 PM, CarlosMFreaza wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 2007/3/15, CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> > >
>> > > "...There was a magazine to use roll film with the plate adapter,
>> > > perhaps Elias is talking about it, but I'm not 100% sure (perhaps
>> 99.9:-), I only have the plate adapter back with the ground glass
>> magazine..."
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>> > I found the following comment in my files:
>> > "When travelling, it may be necessary to use both plates and
>> roll-film.
>> > To avoid carrying two back panels, _a film pressure plate slide_ is
>> supplied
>> > to insert in the adapter. It thus takes the place of the roll-film
>> pressure
>> > plate provided in the back panel of the camera and roll-film can be
>> loaded
>> > in the usual way".
>> >
>> > All the best
>> > Carlos
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
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