Gilkar

2¼x3¼ GRAPHIC CENTURY CAMERA - $300

This Graphic Century camera is in pristine condition.
The lens and shutter are in perfect working order and all of
camera controls are smooth and functional. The Kalart Syncronized
Range Finder is extremely accurate and the images are tack sharp
on the ground glass. The camera comes with:
8 - 2¼x3¼ sheet film holders (some have film in them!) in good condition
1 - Graphic Film Pack Adapter with a TRI X film pack inside it! (I did
not remove the film pack so I do not know if there is film inside it).
1 - Seconic Reflection Type Exposure meter, (I tested it and it is
surprisingly accurate).
1 - Camera users guide (Copyright 1952)

IF interested PM me. I will entertain reasonable offers.

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bobmcculloch Loc: NYC, NY

Back in the day I wanted one of them, had the 4x5 Crown, got passed that now, nice deal though if you still want film cameras, BTW meter looks like an Auto-Lumi had 2 of them very reliable.

Gilkar

Thanks Bob for your input. I cut my photographic teeth using Crown Graphics. It was probably the most versatile camera of its day. I apprenticed with a local photographer in 1965, (I was 21 at the time and thought I knew everything there was to know about photography). He literally taught me the craft. My mentor would not photograph with anything smaller than a 4x5 Graphic camera. At that time he could slide the film holders into the camera, remove the dark slide, take the picture, and replace the dark slide, faster that I could wind my 35mm camera, (an Argus C3 affectionately known as the brick), As I matured in the craft, I opted to use the smaller 2¼x3¼ Crown Graphics with the roll film backs. I shot weddings with them back in that day when complete wedding coverage was 30 shots or less. (10 shots per roll of film). I left the Graphic cameras behind, regretfully, when I was able to afford my first Hasselblad's in 1975.

bobmcculloch Loc: NYC, NY

I inherited my fathers C-3, plain Black model and later my uncles C-3, fancier, tan/cream color with a meter, not coupled but attached, think it was removable, I think my fathers is still up in the attic, not sure about the other.

netsailer Loc: Tampa, FL

when I was about 17 my dad (who specialized in child photography) asked me to photograph weddings of his (former) subjects who had grown up and were about to get married. He bought me a crown but it was both too heavy and also I was too slow in changing packs. So he bought a Rolleicord VA (which I still have). Much later my mom bought me a complete speed graphic outfit-- from a newspaper that was transitioning to 35mm. Has flash, everything, with a neat camera case. I also, when a teenager, bought a used argus C3 that I loaned, much later, to my brother when he went to Ecuador to visit relatives (and lost it). in the 1990s I joined the Argus Collectors Group (http://arguscg.org/), which still belong to. There is an Argus Museum in Ann Arbor that is actually hosting one of the groups yearly meetings on Oct 20th I believe. Also has an annual meeting in Eden North Carolina every year.