Do Century Studio cameras take modern 8x10 holders?

[athanasius80]

Before I downsize....
Do Century studio cameras take modern 8x10 holders or the plateholders that are about 1/4" wider?
Thank you!

 

[jimgalli]

Chris, mine takes modern holders. Have fun.

 

[PHOTOTONE]

I would guess that many LF cameras were "updated" to take standard holders over the years. After all, on most, the backs snap off to rotate from horizontal to verticle. So...simple matter to just exchange the back, way back when.

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

Chris- it will depend on the back you have on it, but yes - if you have a back designed for 8x10 film holders, it will take them.

 

[Whiteymorange]

The 7A I'm using takes them.

 

[PHOTOTONE]

The thing with traditional wooden large format cameras is that they never became obsolete. Down thru the years photographers adapted them to whatever their current practice was. It wasn't hard to acquire a new back and have a woodworker "adjust" it to fit. Lots of people made 4x5 reducing backs and of course the "ever popular" split 5x7 back for portraits. You can only know what an old camera takes in regards film holders by examination.

 

[PHOTOTONE]

Another thing...if the subject camera was known to have been used in the Post WW2 era, then it most probably was set-up to use standard film holders.