Graflex as shot by Kodak!

Looks really robust proper British engineering , I have the Kodak model B half plate, acquired some repromaster lenses that where being put in a skip with the repromaster camera they were from, this was about
30 years ago when I worked in a printers that went dig***l , put them away for when I bought a large format camera, finally bought the Kodak model B half plate about two months ago, if I can upload a image of it and the repro lenses the 270mm is on the camera with the 213 f9 next the the camera and the 135mm f8 next to that. Look forward to your next YouTube lnstallment.
 
All looking good!

I have a whole pile of stuff to catch up to in YouTube videos ... the coming of my Graflex Speed Graphic... my first goes with a Grafmatic back ... the arrival of a Pentacon Six to keep my RB67 company on the medium format shelf ... my review of Fomapan 400 5x7 - it may well be a bit mixed!
 
Marley's Ghost said:
All looking good!

I have a whole pile of stuff to catch up to in YouTube videos ... the coming of my Graflex Speed Graphic... my first goes with a Grafmatic back ... the arrival of a Pentacon Six to keep my RB67 company on the medium format shelf ... my review of Fomapan 400 5x7 - it may well be a bit mixed!
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They they are all fantastic cameras , looked at the speed grafic and the rb 67 , the pentacon, ended up with tlr cameras have 2 Rolleiflex standards 622 from 1935 with tessar f 3.5 lens, have just bought a box of foma 100asa with 400asa, not used them yet as trying paper in the halfplate filmholder and a 7x5 holder from the US as could not any correct size holders in the uk, look forward to the vidios.
 
will1727 said:
They they are all fantastic cameras , looked at the speed grafic and the rb 67 , the pentacon, ended up with tlr cameras have 2 Rolleiflex standards 622 from 1935 with tessar f 3.5 lens, have just bought a box of foma 100asa with 400asa, not used them yet as trying paper in the halfplate filmholder and a 7x5 holder from the US as could not any correct size holders in the uk, look forward to the vidios.
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I got all my 5x7 film holders from the US - a big box of the nicely made wood ones for fifty dollars! Yep I was very lucky. Most of them must have originally come from a studio in Chicago ... they still have little gold or black labels with the studio and photographers name ... a nice historical touch.
To my shame I've never shot any flavour of Rolleiflex - having paid my dues as a wedding photographer years ago in my mis-spent youth with Mamiya C33/C330f TLRs and the wide angle and short tele lens pairs. At the studio that used to employ me as a callow youth to shoot the odd wedding they used to call the Mamiyas 'Whispering Bricks'!
 
Yes the US seems to be the only place to get proper size 7x5 and not the ones on e-bay sold as 7x5 but are realy half plate film holders, as far as the tlrs go always liked the Mamiyas always had decent glass in the lens , bought the Rolleiflex as they were cheap and had tesser lens and liked the idea of 91 year old cameras that still work. Worked part time doing weddings in the 80's soon tired of that too stressfull had a Yashica mat and Olympus om1 back then for the weddings , look foward to the 10x8 vidio .
 
Marley's Ghost said:
All looking good!

I have a whole pile of stuff to catch up to in YouTube videos ... the coming of my Graflex Speed Graphic... my first goes with a Grafmatic back ... the arrival of a Pentacon Six to keep my RB67 company on the medium format shelf ... my review of Fomapan 400 5x7 - it may well be a bit mixed!
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What's your youtube channel called?
 
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