What is this Bronica part please?

[pdeeh]

Longtime no etc.
hello to any old fillum buddies from the APUGs who remember me.
I've long since had to give up my film & darkroom activities, unfortunately.

I dug out my Bronica SQ-A & SQ-B and accessories today and came across an item that I don't recognise.
It is 70mm x 30mm

Can the collective wisdom of the Bronica MF community advise please?

thanks

 

[koraks]

I'm holding an SQ-Ai right now, but I don't recognize that bit of hardware. What are the dimensions, and/or is it possible to see some kind of size reference?

 

[pdeeh]

70mm x 30mm

 

[koraks]

Thanks; the latch 'claws' are an interesting clue, but it's not an arrangement I see on the standard SQ-i 120 film backs I have. Sorry, doesn't ring a bell! I imagine it must be part of an accessory I don't have. My kit is kind of basic.

 

[pdeeh]

I mean, I literally have a couple of bodies with lenses and backs too, nothing exotic.
If feels like it should (from the size) fit into the finder somehow, but there's nothing there, or indeed anywhere I can see either on bodies or backs, that those latch lugs would fit.

Ah well.

 

[neilt3]

It's not a part of a Polaroid back , is it ?
I don't recognise it off any of my Bronica gear .

 

[beemermark]

Battery door SQ-Ai

 

[koraks]

Battery door SQ-Ai

That was my first thought, too, but unless there are at least two totally different types of battery doors for this camera, it's not that. As said, I took my own SQ-Ai and had a good look at it; the battery door is totally different.

 

[DWThomas]

I have a fair pile of SQ-A gear -- backs, bodies, non-metered finders and don't see anything close. Responses upthread covered my first guesses. I vaguely recall there was a back to use 35mm film -- could there be an extra baffle that is used with that?!

Was there ever an auxiliary battery pack or a motor drive gizmo that needed a left-hand whatchamacallit?

(Probably a part that popped out of an old table top electric pancake griddle just to torment you. )

 

[lobitar]

Can you provide proof of it in fact being a Bronica thing?

 

[pdeeh]

Can you provide proof of it in fact being a Bronica thing?

Lol, this isn't a court of law.
It's not for me to "provide proof" of anything to you, matey.
It was with all my Bronica equipment.
It's a fair assumption that it's Bronica.
If it isn't then,

 

[pdeeh]

Thanks for those who replied helpfully.
Looks like we've drawn a blank.
When I sell my gear I'll throw it in & someone else can puzzle over it

 

[koraks]

Lol, this isn't a court of law.

I think it's in part a language issue; @lobitar is likely not a native English speaker. I don't think he intended it in a quasy-legal manner and just wanted to verify if you're sure that this is really a Bronica part. That's a sensible question.

 

[Don_ih]

It reminds me a bit of the end of an old film pack for large format cameras.

 

[Firestarter]

Looks like it has broken away / fallen off an SQ film back. It is the film back latch.