Undeveloped film - Copy Camera: I had to clean out a small newspaper office about a year ago. There was a Copy Camera there as well as the film for it. I have stored this film and...

dougbev3 Loc: Pueblo, Colorado

I had to clean out a small newspaper office about a year ago. There was a Copy Camera there as well as the film for it. I have stored this film and camera for all this time trying to find a home for it. If anyone is interested in any of it please let me know. Thank You

Shutterbugger2 Loc: Chicago

I am interested in both, to experiment with. But can't afford to pay much.
~Bob~

Shutterbugger2 Loc: Chicago

I am interested in both, to experiment with. But can't afford to pay much. I have used such equipment in the 1970's.
~Bob~

Don, the 2nd son Loc: Crowded Florida

"Copy camera" is very vague. Photos of it would helpful be.

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Don, the 2nd son wrote:

"Copy camera" is very vague. Photos of it would helpful be.

Likely a microfilmer. If so, good for experimenting, no $$ value. Processing modules would be a bonus, but many small operators just sent their film out for processing.

dougbev3 Loc: Pueblo, Colorado

Sorry it took me so long to get these pictures, been busy

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wdburt Loc: Tualatin Oregon

Wow! Don't know exactly what I'd use it for, or where I'd set it up, but wow!

dougbev3 Loc: Pueblo, Colorado

The backside of that camera was built into the wall of his darkroom. The front of it was in the next room where he had a rail system and lights to move what he was copying into focus. It was a job to get it out complete. It runs on 110 volts.
The museum in town was interested in it. They wanted to make a display of how a paper was put together. But when they saw how big it was they changed their mind. I would hate to just throw it away. And then the film, what is best for it?

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dougbev3 wrote:

The backside of that camera was built into the wall of his darkroom. The front of it was in the next room where he had a rail system and lights to move what he was copying into focus. It was a job to get it out complete. It runs on 110 volts.
The museum in town was interested in it. They wanted to make a display of how a paper was put together. But when they saw how big it was they changed their mind. I would hate to just throw it away. And then the film, what is best for it?

It’s from an offset printing operation. It made plate negatives. I ran a real one for several years. It was the size of a small school bus.

Don, the 2nd son Loc: Crowded Florida

Can't imagine the better half allowing a tattered home built object the size of a small school bus to be displayed in the LR as a conversation piece. back yard marginally better. Lens would be interesting, long focus high resolution f/11 would be fun to adapt and experiment with. kinda unique.

chapshots Loc: San Antonio, TX

dougbev3 wrote:

I had to clean out a small newspaper office about a year ago. There was a Copy Camera there as well as the film for it. I have stored this film and camera for all this time trying to find a home for it. If anyone is interested in any of it please let me know. Thank You

Several years ago, my daughter, living in Idaho, attended an auction just for fun, but the last item to bid on was an old 8x10 studio camera. When my wife and I took a trip to Glacier NP, she met us there, bringing that camera, knowing I was a photographer, so I brought it home not knowing what I was going to do with it other than admiring it It sat in our garage for a few weeks until I came up with the idea of making it a piece of furniture. We had a glass plate made and set it atop of it, adding some photographic memorabilia to lay atop this relic of the past. It's an Anthony & Scovil work of art, sitting in a prominent area of our den and a very unusual conversation piece.

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maybe a museum would like it that lens must be razor sharp

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

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Likely a microfilmer. If so, good for experimenting, no $$ value. Processing modules would be a bonus, but many small operators just sent their film out for processing.

It’s a graphic arts copy camera for making halftone and line art negatives for offset pre-press prep circa pre-1990 or so. Most folks switched to digital laser imagesetters around then.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

dougbev3 wrote:

The backside of that camera was built into the wall of his darkroom. The front of it was in the next room where he had a rail system and lights to move what he was copying into focus. It was a job to get it out complete. It runs on 110 volts.
The museum in town was interested in it. They wanted to make a display of how a paper was put together. But when they saw how big it was they changed their mind. I would hate to just throw it away. And then the film, what is best for it?

We had half a dozen of these on overhead rail systems in our yearbook printing plant. All had darkrooms behind, vacuum film backs and glass-covered copy boards.

I put a 14’ one in our photo lab in 1988 to make class composites for elementary schools. It was obsolete by 1998.

As for the film, have it developed, unexposed, somewhere with a silver recovery system. It’s a pollutant, otherwise.