Reflex large format cameras....this weeks obsession!!

[Leonard Robertson]

I really need the "normal" lens for the RB Jr, if someone knows what the standard issue lens was. The Cooke lens is really pretty though...

According to Richard Paine in his book "Review of Graflex", the Revolving Back Graflex Junior had three choices of lens (in 1915):

B&L Kodak Anastigmat f6.3, #3
B&L Tessar Series Ic f4.5, #15
Cooke Series II f4.5, #2

In the text on the RB Junior, Paine says "Though normally equipped with very long lenses in relation to its film size, samples have been found fitted with the B&L Tessar Ic #14, which provided a greater focusing range." Looking at the 1920 B&L catalog on Camera Eccentric http://www.cameraeccentric.com/html/...schlomb_3.html page 57, the Tessar Ic #15 is a 6 1/2" focal length and the #14 is a 5 1/2" focal length.

Len

[Leonard Robertson]

After my previous post I found the 1916 Graflex catalog on Camera Eccentric http://www.cameraeccentric.com/html/...raflex_20.html which on page 21 shows the RB Junior.

Len

[IanG]

Thanks for that link, my Graflex is the 3½"x5½" Compact Graflex which is stated to need a minimum focal length of 6". That means my TT&H 5¾" Cooke Luxor may not be long enough (I mistakenly called it a Lustar in pst #85 here). I have 3 of these Series II 5¾" Cooke Triplets, one is marked as a TT&H 5¾" T-P Cooke Anastigmat - it's fitted to a Thornton Pickard Ruby Reflex. I just checked and these lenses will cover 5"x4"

Ian