Zeiss Ikon Maximar 207/3 and 207/7

These are some of the finest plate cameras ever made. Highly evolved precision cameras originally developed for making stereo photographs. The fine vertical and horizontal shifts on these cameras, were not for photographing buildings, and the little level was not to insure you had your snapshot level, but were very fine mechanisims for alignment of stereo photographs. That was, the "MODE" from the beginning of photography well into the 1930's. All of the glass plate and later film sizes and camera sizes and for that matter the lens focal lengths were geared to taking stereo photos. Here is my line up of Maximars. Two of the 207/3 model for CDV and Stereo plates, and a 207/7 for making copies of the double plates onto one 9x12 plate for  duplication or projection. This size is also used for the popular Cabinet Card Portraits...also makes nice tintypes. I have another 207/7 shown at the bottom with the enlarger back !.

below  are photos of Some very unusual attachments for the 9x12 cm camera.   A  wet plate back and an enlarger back that just slide on.  The plate holder has the velvet light seal on the holder itself. it  has a zero insertion force into the back;  then you turn the wedge on the front to compress the light seal, and lock it into place.  It doesn't wear out the velvet that way. It has it's own ground glass that matches the focal point of the plate holder.  The enlarger is a diffusion type,  with a glass plate holder for anything up to 9x12 cm. It works very well with my smaller  maximar negatives as well in fact I can put the two of them in there and make a stereo print in one shot. .