What is it?
Sep 28, 2016 18:06:38 #
Hoping someone here may recognize this mount as I have no idea what it is made for. My best guess is a mount for a LARGE (8x10?) view camera of some sort, but I have no idea what it is supposed to mount that camera onto.
The top is 7 inches wide by 8.5 inches long and felted to prevent scratching. It has one 1/4" attaching screw to mount the camera onto it is in a sliding slot for positioning choices. There is also a fixed 1/4" threaded hole in the other end to use for a two screw mounting it would appear. The base hole that would mount to something like a round rail is exactly 1" in diameter. The plate is cast aluminum that has been machined flat to be felted.
Anybody got a guess?
The top is 7 inches wide by 8.5 inches long and felted to prevent scratching. It has one 1/4" attaching screw to mount the camera onto it is in a sliding slot for positioning choices. There is also a fixed 1/4" threaded hole in the other end to use for a two screw mounting it would appear. The base hole that would mount to something like a round rail is exactly 1" in diameter. The plate is cast aluminum that has been machined flat to be felted.
Anybody got a guess?
Sep 28, 2016 18:14:38 #
Sep 28, 2016 21:27:44 #
Sep 28, 2016 21:53:22 #
DickC wrote:
Studio camera???
I have 7 different view cameras and this matches up with none of them. Nor any tripod or rail mount system I have ever seen. "Studio Camera" is extremely ambiguous and refers to nothing as ANY camera is a studio camera when used in a studio.
Sep 29, 2016 02:40:14 #
May have been intended for something other than a camera. A film studio lighting unit, for example. If there is some company name or patent # on it, this could give a clue to its purpose.
Sep 29, 2016 08:44:16 #
Maybe some more information could help? Where did you get it, how did you acquire it? Did it come in a 'box' with other equipment, and if so, what type of equipment? All would help in developing a search routine.
Sep 29, 2016 08:51:45 #
rook2c4 wrote:
May have been intended for something other than a camera. A film studio lighting unit, for example. If there is some company name or patent # on it, this could give a clue to its purpose.
I wish it were that simple, not even a casting mark anywhere.
Sep 29, 2016 08:53:51 #
Picdude wrote:
Maybe some more information could help? Where did you get it, how did you acquire it? Did it come in a 'box' with other equipment, and if so, what type of equipment? All would help in developing a search routine.
Was part of an estate purchase. Other gear ranged from mostly old 35mm stuff to a 4x5 Crown Graphic. Nothing scales to the size of this mount.
Sep 29, 2016 10:02:58 #
YOU FOUND IT YOU FOUND IT!!!! It's the left handed wind shifter we always looked for when I was in the Boy Scouts. LOL
Sep 29, 2016 10:56:40 #
Man MT. If you don't know, ain't nobody gonna know! Got me scratching! Biggest I ever used was a 4x5.
Sep 29, 2016 10:57:15 #
MT Shooter wrote:
Hoping someone here may recognize this mount as I ... (show quote)
A mount for a piece of old surveying equipment perhaps?
Sep 29, 2016 11:38:11 #
wj cody
Loc: springfield illinois
it is a mounting plate for a studio, 8x10 or 11x14 studio camera attached to a large platform; further attached to a very large wheeled wooden camera stand. probably dates somewhere between 1890 and 1920, but not newer.
Sep 29, 2016 12:08:10 #
wj cody wrote:
it is a mounting plate for a studio, 8x10 or 11x14 studio camera attached to a large platform; further attached to a very large wheeled wooden camera stand. probably dates somewhere between 1890 and 1920, but not newer.
Try as I might, I have yet to come up with a single example of a camera stand that uses a horizontal 1" diameter mount system.
Sep 29, 2016 12:14:28 #
wj cody
Loc: springfield illinois
MT Shooter wrote:
Try as I might, I have yet to come up with a single example of a camera stand that uses a horizontal 1" diameter mount system.
i doubt you will find one, today. very rare and not particularly desireable on the secondary market, when they come up. mostly purchased by interior designers.
Sep 29, 2016 12:16:18 #
Eastman kodak head for large format camera mounted on a Davis & Sanford tripod . Have one sitting next to me . Yours is in very good shape , looks like it has very little use.
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