Pacerr, this talk about 4x5 has brought back some memories but, those geing being more than 40 years old, they are a bit vague. I used 4x5 and an 8x10 view camera in school. One, the 4x5 I think, was a Graflex, but it seems like the other was something else.
As I remember it, the film was coded with a series of notches on one corner. If you held the film with the notches in the upper right corner, the emulsion side of the film was up. (That's how you knew which way to load it in the magazine.) The number, (and pattern?) of the notches indicated the type of film (Tri-X, Plus-X, etc.)
Does that sound right, or are my "senior moments" becoming more frequent and more protracted?
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