I’ve definitely made contacts of 35mm and 120mm roll film, before, myself. I had the suspicion that that was what that device is for, with 8x10” plate film. - Alex On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 13:02 Glenn Roberts <glenn.f.roberts@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes. It's for making contact prints. Negatives were considerably larger on older cameras and the easiest way to make a print was to put print paper behind a negative and expose it to light. I did this myself when I was a teenager, using the old "120" film. The resulting prints were pretty small (2-1/2" square or so) but it was exciting at the time and I couldn't afford an enlarger. I think older cameras had even larger negative sizes - google says the old "616" and "116" formats had negative sizes 2-1/2" x 4-1/2" - reasonably big for making contact prints!

https://nostalgicmedia.com/pages/old-film-and-camera-formats

- Glenn

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All,

Do any of y’all have any idea what this is?

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co m%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F303064978664

It looks like a direct contact plate exposer, to me, but I’m not sure. Very pretty.

- Alex