Originally Posted by
Dan Fromm
If you look hard, you can find a 5x7 Speed Graphic.
I wanted to use the 6"/1.9 Super Six I used to have on my 2x3 Speed Graphic. I never implemented the solution for the Super Six, the lens was just too heavy for walking around with, but have implemented it for several other largish lenses taken from aerial cameras.
If you cross the Dau brothers' palms with silver, SKGrimes will made a cup-shaped adapter that will go on a 4x5 Graphic board. Smaller male end goes through a hole in the board, retaining ring clamps it to the board, larger female end accepts the lens. Then make a spacer (crutch) that will fit between the bottom of the lens' barrel and the bed rail's front cross-bar. Caveat: the adapter may act as a stop, if so you'll have a lens that's somewhat slower than f/2.
And there you will be, if the lens' barrel is slender enough. To find out whether this can be done, lay the lens on the camera's front bed and check whether the lens' optical axis is below the center of the gate.
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