Graflex Speed Graphic 3 1/4 x 4 1/4. $100.
Aug 17, 2020 23:11:18 #
I have a 41/4x41/4 Graflex I refinished. I have a question please. Since I removed the focal plane shutter when working on it. Can you or anyone tell me how to adjust the focal plane shutter? Any help will be much appreciated. Here is my Graflex finished, enjoy.
Aug 18, 2020 09:50:54 #
petercbrandt
Loc: New York City, Manhattan
Beautiful, never seen a wooden Graflex. Why the box below, any purpose to it or just a photo prop ?
Aug 18, 2020 09:52:59 #
petercbrandt
Loc: New York City, Manhattan
sisko67 wrote:
I have a 41/4x41/4 Graflex I refinished. I have a question please. Since I removed the focal plane shutter when working on it. Can you or anyone tell me how to adjust the focal plane shutter? Any help will be much appreciated. Here is my Graflex finished, enjoy.
You would be the perfect person to restore my camera. Your own restoration is Amazing !
Peter
Aug 18, 2020 15:37:51 #
I'm 85...at about age of 14-18, I worked at an Indiana camera store in summer and after school. I had a 2 1/4 X 3 1/4 Speed Graphic with a solenoid flash and about 20 film holders all bought SH in good condition. It got me into developing my film and enlarging the photos. Still have some with me after 10 or 12 moves. I loved that camera!!!
Aug 18, 2020 23:33:01 #
AndyH wrote:
Lovely little camera! My first one that was (at least in theory) "large format". The roll film backs make it a big winner.
There is no substitute for a film test for the focal plane shutter, although the sound, combined with the accuracy of the slit size can give you an approximation.
There is no substitute for a film test for the focal plane shutter, although the sound, combined with the accuracy of the slit size can give you an approximation.
There are no rollfilm holders for that vintage of 2x3 sheet film cameras.
There is no question of “accuracy of the slit size”. The size can never change. But you’re on target about the sound being a rough guide. If it sounds semi-smooth, at worst it needs lube, which is pretty much a DIY on such a large simple device.
OTOH, if the spring or the FP curtain is beyond salvaging, just leave it open and use the leaf shutter.
It’s pretty much a display item anyway. A cheap black barrel 4” enlarger lens would serve for display.
Aug 18, 2020 23:37:43 #
petercbrandt wrote:
Beautiful, never seen a wooden Graflex. Why the box below, any purpose to it or just a photo prop ?
Yours is the same. Just remove the tolex and refinish the wood !
Aug 18, 2020 23:43:53 #
Goober wrote:
Never heard of a focal plane shutter in a camera like this....uses a leaf shutter in the lens and a dark slide for the film back.
All Speed Graphics have an FP shutter. Thaz where the *Speed* comes from !
Aug 19, 2020 07:40:40 #
User ID wrote:
There are no rollfilm holders for that vintage of ... (show quote)
Smaller tears or holes in the shutter curtain are easily repaired and accessed. I use a liquid rubber product for shutter curtains and bellows. I’ve just lubed the springs and found them pretty accurate. You can find Graflok backs that can be easily adapted from later cameras if you don’t mind having a “Frankencamera”. As for lenses with functional shutters, they’re a dime a dozen on eBay.
Display is fine, of course, but it’s not hard to turn these into functional cameras if that’s your goal.
Andy
Aug 19, 2020 09:55:26 #
Peter would you confirm that this is a “3x4” ? Thank you.
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My error all along was thinking about the “2x3” series. Not sure there ever was a FP shutter in a 2x3 anywho, so I’m guessing 2x3 is just a brain fart on my part ... plus nostalgia cuz I hugely looooooved my late model (gray, with a graflok) 2x3 Century Graphic. Now THAT was a street camera !
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My error all along was thinking about the “2x3” series. Not sure there ever was a FP shutter in a 2x3 anywho, so I’m guessing 2x3 is just a brain fart on my part ... plus nostalgia cuz I hugely looooooved my late model (gray, with a graflok) 2x3 Century Graphic. Now THAT was a street camera !
Aug 19, 2020 10:46:45 #
Aug 19, 2020 10:47:50 #
petercbrandt
Loc: New York City, Manhattan
User ID wrote:
Yours is the same. Just remove the tolex and refinish the wood !
any idea why the black verus the red bellows ?
Aug 19, 2020 13:57:57 #
petercbrandt wrote:
any idea why the black verus the red bellows ?
There’s a lotta work in that camera. If it needed some bellows repair it probably made sense to replace it. Why not just PM the owner ?
Aug 19, 2020 14:04:02 #
petercbrandt wrote:
?! So much buzz, but no buyers ?!
Peter
Peter
Classics tend to attract a lotta buzz :-)
Aug 19, 2020 16:31:37 #
petercbrandt
Loc: New York City, Manhattan
User ID wrote:
There’s a lotta work in that camera. If it needed some bellows repair it probably made sense to replace it. Why not just PM the owner ?
Sorry but my Graflex along with my Rollei, 3 Hasselblads and 6 Nikons are all display models. I shoot only digitally ! Who wants to work in a darkroom ? Everything is better in digital if you know how, but it doesn't come w/o a lot of effort in wet processing either.
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