Another thing I like about my Super is that it's easy to pop the folding focusing shade assembly off completely and focus under a cloth - makes it so much easier to use a loupe.
I also have a Crown and honestly I sort of like it better - particularly when I want to use a 75 mm lens as was stated above. Super front tilt is also nice but depressing the silly tabs to release it is a bit fiddly. With the mod that was done to it to use a Linhof hand grip it is easy to use a cable release which seats in the grip - I've never tried to use the electric shutter even though I have a couple of sets of the batteries.
Re cool - I got one of the Graflex flash guns and a few dozen flash bulbs - it works fine and it's great fun to hand the whole thing to a waitress and ask her to take a picture. Sort of like handing a slide rule to a recent engineering grad and watching him try to figure out what it is.


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