Building a film holder...

Rob Vinnedge said:

I do see your point, that some manufacturers may want to remain proprietary (Lotus?), but frankly, one reason I chose not to go with Lotus was that it limited me. I would not have chosen Wisner for the same reason (a wise decision in retrospect).

Regarding users' needs, a cheaper, one size fits all holder might be desirable, given that there are already enough exquisite pieces of equipment to purchase in the ULF world. There will always be a market for Sandy's holders for the reason you describe. I, for one, want a camera that will accept them, as they appear to be emerging as the new standard.

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I am a film holder manufacturer, just starting out full time last week. The first holder rails are coming off the CNC machine this afternoon. I am complying with the standards put forth by Sandy King.

barryjyoung said:

I am a film holder manufacturer, just starting out full time last week. The first holder rails are coming off the CNC machine this afternoon. I am complying with the standards put forth by Sandy King.

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Congratulations, Barry. I hope your business will go well, since I know the thrill of finally starting professionally what you've been doing before as 'hobby projects'.
I started making ground glass last year as an after-hours business and I still can't give up my daytime job to live from it.

Meantime, what would your 7x17" holders cost? You can PM me if you'd rather like that. I would be interested in a lot of 5 and would eventually adapt my camera back to them if the price suits me.
I have only 2 holders now and planned to make 2 others but after 18 months I didn't start up the saw and mill to do it

Kind regards,
Geert

argus said:

Congratulations, Barry. I hope your business will go well, since I know the thrill of finally starting professionally what you've been doing before as 'hobby projects'.
I started making ground glass last year as an after-hours business and I still can't give up my daytime job to live from it.

Meantime, what would your 7x17" holders cost? You can PM me if you'd rather like that. I would be interested in a lot of 5 and would eventually adapt my camera back to them if the price suits me.
I have only 2 holders now and planned to make 2 others but after 18 months I didn't start up the saw and mill to do it

Kind regards,
Geert

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Hello Geert:

Thanks for the good wishes for the business. I wish you well in yours too. Perhaps I can get you to make focusing screens for our line of cameras?

The film holder price is as yet undecided until I finish the batch I am working on now. I am still calculating cycle times and making fixture modifications. I do know that we were talking about a buy 4 get one free plan which seems to fit in with your need for five holders. I know that we will never sell anything that we do not have in inventory. We plan to put requests into a queue until inventory builds to the point that the oldest request in the queue can be satisfied. That requestor will then be emailed to see if they are still interested and the next and the next and so on until the queue is empty. Then the process starts again. We will take no money from customers until their product is ready to ship.

I believe I can say that the development costs to make two holders definitely would exceed the costs to buy five. At least if you approached it from a manufacturing point of view.

Thanks for your interest and please let me know about the focusing screens.

My how time flies. My last post to this group was in 2005. 19 years ago!!! Since that time, I started and ended a different career teaching high technology manufacturing. Purchased two homes and sold one. We moved from Tacoma WA to Patterson MO with a complete woodshop, machine shop, quilt-making shop, had a heart attack with 6 heart stents installed, and many many other goings on. It took 7 round trips in a 26 foot box truck.

Film Holders. Well, as soon as all the set up is done here in MO (Been at setting up for three years now. I am thinking of continuing with film holder production. A lot has happened. Hopefully I will live long enough to get some to market.

Barry Young
Young Camera Company
Patterson, MO

I made an 8x10 film holder because I had an 8x10 camera and no holders. I made a 5x7 holder for the same reason. Single sided, though.

barryjyoung said:

My how time flies. My last post to this group was in 2005. 19 years ago!!! Since that time, I started and ended a different career teaching high technology manufacturing. Purchased two homes and sold one. We moved from Tacoma WA to Patterson MO with a complete woodshop, machine shop, quilt-making shop, had a heart attack with 6 heart stents installed, and many many other goings on. It took 7 round trips in a 26 foot box truck.

Film Holders. Well, as soon as all the set up is done here in MO (Been at setting up for three years now. I am thinking of continuing with film holder production. A lot has happened. Hopefully I will live long enough to get some to market.

Barry Young
Young Camera Company
Patterson, MO

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Welcome back Barry.
You may want to update your Photrio location info!

barryjyoung said:

My how time flies. My last post to this group was in 2005. 19 years ago!!! Since that time, I started and ended a different career teaching high technology manufacturing. Purchased two homes and sold one. We moved from Tacoma WA to Patterson MO with a complete woodshop, machine shop, quilt-making shop, had a heart attack with 6 heart stents installed, and many many other goings on. It took 7 round trips in a 26 foot box truck.

Film Holders. Well, as soon as all the set up is done here in MO (Been at setting up for three years now. I am thinking of continuing with film holder production. A lot has happened. Hopefully I will live long enough to get some to market.

Barry Young
Young Camera Company
Patterson, MO

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6 stents! Glad you are still around. I didn’t have a heart attack, but I caught the widow maker bomb before it detonated. Ended up with quadruple bypass. Stents were not an option.