Reflex large format cameras....this weeks obsession!!

[Dan Fromm]

Practically unheard-of monster on ebay.fr. Most of the Studs that turn up there are 4x5 TLRs. Not mine and AFAIK I'm not acquainted with the seller.

http://www.ebay.fr/itm/Chambre-camer...-/371212201445

[Tin Can]

Practically unheard-of monster on ebay.fr. Most of the Studs that turn up there are 4x5 TLRs. Not mine and AFAIK I'm not acquainted with the seller.

http://www.ebay.fr/itm/Chambre-camer...-/371212201445

The 'STUD'. That thing is awesome. How much is that in real money?

It makes a Gowlandflex look like a toy.

I feel so so....

[Mark Sawyer]

That Stud is 9x12 cm, not 9x12 inches. A bit smaller than 4x5.

[Tin Can]

OK, I forgot a comma is actually the decimal point in EU nomenclature.

1500 EU is not insane, not free, but a very cool camera.

[IanG]

I seem to have acquired quite a few LF Reflex cameras in the past year or so, most are borderline LF as they are Quarter plate, the latest is a Butcher Pressman which the seller let me have cheap for the lens a TTH Cooke Lustar (the famous Cooke triplet) in excellent condition. Surprisingly the Pressman shutter is like the Graflex with a choice of 3 slit widths and different tensions, Most UK SLR's have two separate shutter curtains a constant tension and the slit width between the two curtains is latered like modern cloth shuttered MF & 35mm cameras.

Earlier in the thread I mentioned I have a postcard sized reflex Graflex, I've realised that modern 4x5 DDS (film holders) will fit with very minor adaptation but the gate will crop the images, however I should be able to use 9x12 DDS with no cropping at the film gate, the two holders are the same outside dimensions. Graflex cameras are easy tom work on, the mechanism is quite simple.

Just need to get my new workshop up and running . . . . . . .

Ian

[djdister]

I have a Graflex Series B 5x7 (non-rotating back) camera in good working condition, and a Graflex RB Jr. 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 with a Cooke lens. The lens is a bit long for the camera - maybe a 6 inch, and can barely focus on infinity, and the back seems to have a bad light leak when used with a rollfilm back, but I'm not getting rid of it anytime soon. Assuming I can figure out the light leak problem, I really need the "normal" lens for the RB Jr, if someone knows what the standard issue lens was. The Cooke lens is really pretty though...

The 5x7 works just fine, just have to do something about those slotted film holders.

[Tin Can]

I am going to count myself lucky to have 3 Speed Graphics with well working FP shutters. 2x3, 3x4 and 4x5. I don't want to fiddle with any others, but I do know some here repair them. I cringe every time I fire one. The double reverse shutters could be double the pleasure.

[Oren Grad]

The 'STUD'. That thing is awesome. How much is that in real money?

It makes a Gowlandflex look like a toy.

Heh... but did you see the two 8x10 Gowlandflexes that were on eBay recently?

[Tin Can]

Heh... but did you see the two 8x10 Gowlandflexes that were on eBay recently?

I saw one, but not 2. I am working on 4x5 Gowlandflex today.The new lens boards were completed yesterday by Zimba of Chicago.

[Oren Grad]

I am working on 4x5 Gowlandflex today.The new lens boards were completed yesterday by Zimba of Chicago.

Most excellent!