My first Graflex SLR was an RB Tele Graflex in 3 1/4 x 4 1/4. I brought it about 30 years ago, and it still works just fine. I shot my sister-in-law's wedding with it. It those days you could still get 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 Plus-X Pan, and that's what I used. Since the demise of commercially available film I've been shooting 3 1/4 x 4 (not 4 1/4) Kodak Electron Image Film (I brought a mess of it on Ebay, enough to keep me going the rest of my life). I expose it at ASA 6 and develop it in Diafine. It's very fine grain. One of the best now that Tech Pan is gone. This is more like the film speed used when these cameras were new anyway. You can also find a 120 roll film back for them if you watch Ebay long enough. I have a bunch of other Graflex SLR's, in 3 1/4 x 4 1/4, 2 1/4 x 3 1/4, 4x5, and 5x7. With a little tinkering I've been able to make most of them work. My next project will be to combine parts from two non-working 5x7 Press Graflexes to try to get one working version.
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