10x20 inch ULF???

[User Removed]

Good point, and just crop your prints.

You never know when you might see an image that works better in 12x20, and you have the whole camera set up for doing 10x20.

 

[Hugo Zhang]

10x20 ULF

Michael,

I actually bought such a camera from Ebay a few weeks ago. Well, the camera is from India, beautifully made with 38" bellow, about 100 years old, I guess. It came with 2 holders which were not made to take today's sheet films. No problem, I have located a small shop in China specializing in wooden cameras and holders and they are custom making 5 holders for me as we speak. The film size as I measured is really 9 1/2 x 19 1/2", the ground glass is 10x20". I had searched high and low for films and by pure luck found 5 rolls of Kodak Aerographic Plus-X films 9 1/2 x 250 feet. I bought the guy's whole inventory which will last a few years for me.

I feel so excited about this project because this is my first ULF and the more I lookat this 10x20" size, the more I like it. One thing is certain, my picutres will look a little different than popular 8x20" and 12x20" ones.

Ask me any questions and good luck in your search.

Hugo

 

[Dave Wooten]

Welcome Hugo,

It would be great to see some photos of the "new" camera!

 

[Hugo Zhang]

10x20 ULF

Dave,

I have some pictures of the camera. But as a computer illiterate, I can't figure out how to it here. If you give me your email address, I can send some there and you can post them here for those interested.

Hugo

 

[Dave Wooten]

pm sent

 

[Dave Wooten]

Here is the photos from Hugo of the 10 x 20 camera!
Thanks Hugo

 

[Dave Wooten]

Hugo,

Any nomenclature on the lens shown...I imagine it covers the format?

 

[Hugo Zhang]

10x20 ULF

Dave,

Interesting you mentioned that lens. I didn't know that lens and so I didn't buy it. I asked the seller to take that lens off and get $250 off his asking price. So I had a good deal on the camera.

Since we are on the subject of lenses, I have to tell you a small joke fate played with me: about three months ago, so convinced that I would never touch ULF, I took a 30" Artar in its wooden box which had been patiently sitting and waiting for this camera in my closet for the last 5 years and auctioned it off on eBay. I wanted it to produce beautiful images, my well intentioned excuse.

For this camera, I rushed to have my 14" Trigor mounted on a Copal 3, 19" and a 24" RD Artars will be taken off my Deardorff lens boards, a 760mm Nikkor in barrel as a sad replacement for my lost 30" Artar and a new purchase of a Artar 35" which I grabbed with hasty hands a week ago.

Hugo