stephan_brunner Posted August 9, 2004 Share Posted August 9, 2004 Hello all! Are the Kodak MasterView and a Kodak Master Metalfield identical? I saw one and I`m not sure if they are the same models. Greetings to al Stephan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_du_busc Posted August 9, 2004 Share Posted August 9, 2004 The term "metal field" would describe the MasterView 8x10. I don' know that there is a "Master Metalfield". Pictures of the MasterView 8x10 are available on the web, if you have seen the "Master Metalfield" you can compare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_kasaian1 Posted August 9, 2004 Share Posted August 9, 2004 Stephan, I could be wrong, but aren't there two versions of the master view? One was the 8x10 field camera, the other was a 4x5 monorail ancestor of the Calumet. FWIW,I had a 8x10 Masterview---swell camera! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim_atherton9 Posted August 9, 2004 Share Posted August 9, 2004 Are you talking about an 8x10 or 4x5? The Kodak Master Camera 8x10 (a folding metal field camera) is often mistakenly called the Kodak Master View 8x10. Tha Kodak Masterview was the 4x5 metal monorail camera refered to above (actually more of a sort of metal folding twin rail/tailbord type thing if I recall) This is the Kodak Master 8x10 http://www.largeformatphotography.info/kodak/Image1.jpg When you say: "Are the Kodak MasterView and a Kodak Master Metalfield identical? I saw one and I`m not sure if they are the same models." I'm not clear which you saw - what you call the "Masterview" or the "Metalfield". I've also come across the Kodak Master 8x10 called the Kodak Master Metalfield, but like the term Koadak Master View, always by third parties and never on an actual camera or in kodak literature as part of the name, only as a descriptor - so the effect is the 8x10 "Kodak Master" view camera or the "Kodak Master" metalfield camera Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephan_brunner Posted August 9, 2004 Author Share Posted August 9, 2004 I^m looking for a good 8x10 to start with and came across the 8x10 Kodak Master View. I read about one on the web and this was called 8x10 Kodak Master Metalfield. Thats where the confusion comes from. Thank you Stephan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark_sampson Posted August 9, 2004 Share Posted August 9, 2004 Just to muddy the waters a little, Kodak also made the 8x10 Commercial camera, a magnesium version of the old 2-D. It pre-dates the 8x10 Master camera- not real common, but they're out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_du_busc Posted August 9, 2004 Share Posted August 9, 2004 You guys sent me shuffling off to the file cabinet saying "I know it's here somewhere". The Kodak owner's manual is titled "Kodak Master Camera 8x10". Yes, photography is about obsessing.... if it isn't grain size or lens resolving power, why not camera names? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skopar Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 <p>The is an advertisement I found on the web that refers to the 1954 Kodak Master View Camera. From what I have read from various sources, this is still a somewhat contentious issue. Hopefully, this will add some clarity.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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