Plate cameras with lens boards?

Vaidotas · Sep 2, 2022

Most plate cameras has fixed lenses.
Some has bayonet for lens interchageability.
Question is - does some of them has lens boards?
I just buoght zeiss Protar VII on tiny lens board, which seem made in plate camera style.

lobitar · Sep 2, 2022

Vaidotas said:
Most plate cameras has fixed lenses.
Some has bayonet for lens interchageability.
Question is - does some of them has lens boards?
I just buoght zeiss Protar VII on tiny lens board, which seem made in plate camera style.

Could you possibly post a photo of the plate?

Vaidotas · Sep 3, 2022

lobitar · Sep 3, 2022

This lens panel no doubt is to an old Ernemann platecamera. As I'm not an expert in Ernemann cameras I cannot tell you precisely which one. But it's from an Ernemann.
Another old german maker of platecameras with changeable lens panels was Rietzschel in Munic (München).
I

Vaidotas · Sep 6, 2022

Thank you very much.
With Ica on possesion I somehow overlooked Ernemann.
It seems they built 13x18 too.
FL of the attached lens was ~ 180 mm.

Ian Grant · Sep 6, 2022

It's not correct to say that most plate cameras have fixed lenses. Very few had a bayonet lens inter changeability.

In this case it's a metal bodied camera most probably German and very few [re-WWII took lens boards, so it should be easy to identify.

Ian

lobitar · Sep 6, 2022

Vaidotas said:
Thank you very much.
With Ica on possesion I somehow overlooked Ernemann.
It seems they built 13x18 too.
FL of the attached lens was ~ 180 mm.

With a focal length of 180mm and being a (convertible) Protar, the cutout would be abt. 45mm, and for a 13x18 cm camera a width of the lens panel of abt. 90 mm would seem abt right.

Plate cameras with lens boards?

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