Mine looks just like yours but says "Grover" on top of the rear standard. I'm told these sorts of differences are common between otherwise similar/almost identical examples. I have read that B&J farmed out production to several small shops in the Chicago area and minor variations are not unheard of. Mine will just focus a 90mm Super Angulon at infinity on a flat lensboard and without a rear extension rail will focus a 360mm a bit closer than infinity. A rear extension rail just about doubles the length of the camera but the bellows stops 2 or 3 inches short of that.
Politically, aerodynamically, and fashionably incorrect.
I've got one of those. Bought it for $150 a couple years ago, and I've made some of my best work with it. A camera doesn't have to be "special" - it just has to be able to do good work.
I expect a Grover catalog soon
I have a 5X7 rail Grover I had to buy from the same idiot one piece at a time, tears ago
Not Johnny Cash here and that is 2 puns
soon as...
Tin Can
To answer one question: when I had mine I made a recessed board for it and could fit a 65mm/5.6 Super Angulon, but the lens didn't cover. No possibility of movements with that combo. I believe the 75/5.6 Super Angulon just about does cover.
The camera:
BJ 5x7 w/65mm Super Angulon!
by Michael Darnton, on Flickr
The results:
Adams St
by Michael Darnton, on Flickr
Another:
Federal Plaza
by Michael Darnton, on Flickr
Thanks, but I'd rather just watch:
Large format: http://flickr.com/michaeldarnton
Mostly 35mm: http://flickr.com/mdarnton
You want digital, color, etc?: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stradofear
One last thing from me on this:
when I had my B&J and took it out of the house and into the field, I REVERSED the camera body on the bed so that the track folded up over the front standard. I felt that that protected the lens when packing, unpacking and generally moving around.
There was a 4x5 reducing back on it with a Grafloc GG and hood, so that end was protected too.
Drew Bedo
www.quietlightphoto.com
http://www.artsyhome.com/author/drew-bedo
There are only three types of mounting flanges; too big, too small and wrong thread!
You can find a description of your camera on page 12 of the 1951 Burke and James catalog on cameraeccentric.com
https://www.cameraeccentric.com/stat.../pdfs/bj_2.pdf
Thanks for sharing the link to this and pointing out the page. Greatly appreciate it. I wonder if there was ever an instruction sheet or booklet for this camera. Not interested in the how to of using it as much as just what was printed for it.
If only we could buy lenses for the prices listed in the catalog.
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