has anyone ever tried it? i'm thinking of building a clip-on mirror box and viewfinder to go between the FP shutter and the bellows.
has anyone ever tried it? i'm thinking of building a clip-on mirror box and viewfinder to go between the FP shutter and the bellows.
Sounds lkk I’lle too much work to me. Why not get a Graflex SLR?
Why not start with a Graflex and add a rangefinder, sports finder, and whatever else you need to make it work like a cobbled up Graphic?
i'm thinking a trigger-like small lever on the right side of the mirror box by the speed graphic's shutter release to raise and hold the mirror in position with one finger while triggering the shutter with another finger. just a quick double click. that would also give me the option of adding a cable release socket later on and using one of those dual cable releases meant for macro bellows.
because i have a speed graphic, not a graflex slr. that's what i have, that's what i'm starting with. no point buying an slr and trying to turn it into a speed graphic if i already have a speed graphic. besides, it wouldn't work the other way around. squeezing a clip-on mirror box into a speed graphic to gain all the functionality of an slr is pretty straight forward. removing the mirror box from an slr, extending the bellows all the way to the fp shutter, adding longer focus rails and a drop bed, adding movements to the front standard, adding a rangefinder, etc. to match the functionality of my speed graphic and making it all easily reversible is just not going to happen.
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