I have a Crown Graphic and I read on Graflex.org that someone did a test and det ermined that his Speed Graphic was designed to have the Fresnel lens between the lens and the groundglass for proper registration. Then, in the archives here I found a thread linking to Ron Wisner talking about Fresnel lenses saying they s hould be used on the outside of the camera, between the viewer and the groundgla ss. Which is correct here?
My Crown Graphic has the fresnel between the groundglass and the lens, and just from eyeballing it, it looks like it has to be this way to put the groundglass a t the proper position to match the film plane. Will this cause be great trouble s? For those of you with Graphics, how is yours set up.
As soon as I get my lens back from SK Grimes I'm going do a test to see if the f ilm and groundglass are in the same spot. My first set of negs from this camera are a little soft, but they wern't exposed under ideal conditions either.
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