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.

 

[DWThomas]

Perhaps Firestarter wins the Internet today! There seems to be a fair number of variations in the SQxx series backs over the course of it the system's production. On the back I looked at most recently here, the foam is on the inner side of that flange sticking up. But the ASA/ISO indicator has wandered around over that history also, among other changes I'm vaguely aware of.

The back seems to be the Achilles heel of the system anyway, maybe somebody threw one against the wall one day and that's what's left!

 

[lobitar]

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.

Thanks, koraks - spot on. I certainly meant no offence! But perhaps I've read too many PerryMason mysteries?