Mystery Camera

Bill Martindale

Bill Martindale

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Did anybody see the lead in to the BBC 6 o’clock news and notice the guy on the left in the brown jacket when they were talking about the Trump impeachment. It looked like a large format camera with a reflex waist level finder.

Just wondering what it was.
 
Yes it does. It looks like a very fast lens too. Remarkable.
Lower down the page it says that it's an Aero Liberator.

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Thank You both for finding that. An interesting camera and a welcome change to all the DSLR's out there. The video says and shows it is a Kodak Aero Ektar 178mm lens with an f2.5 aperture made for aerial reconnaissance.
 
I love those Graflex SLR's, I have a few of varying sizes but not a 5x4 one. Here is one from the huge 5x7 version.



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He's swapped from his Speed Graphic to a Graflex Reflex camera, it'll be quicker to use.

I must restore my own Graflex SLR it's a Postcard version but I plan to use modern 9x12 DDS with it as I have some rather than waste 5x4 film.

Ian
 
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