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This is a 4"x5" press camera produced by Graflex Inc. starting in the early 1900s. I have no idea when this particular model was produced, but it doesn't matter so much, since I've modified the camera from its original specifications to make it work.
Originally, the lens/shutter assembly didn't work, so I appropriated a working Compur shutter and Zeiss lens from a 9x12 cm plate camera whose bellows were shot. I actually had to re-drill the lens board to accommodate the new shutter assembly. I also removed the Kalart rangefinder that was originally attached to the right side, since it wasn't calibrated for the new lens, and didn't work, anyways.
Settings are as follows:
Shutter: 1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, T, B
Aperture: f-4.5, 5.6, 8, 11, 16, 22, 32
Lens: Carl Zeiss Jena 135mm f-4.5 Tessar
Format: Single 4"x5" exposures on sheet film in holders.
Photograph of Charles M. Allen Jr. of Mount Gilead, N.C., sitting on a curb along a road, using a Graflex Speed Graphic, Ground Camera, to take a photograph at the U.S. Army Air Forces base Lowry Field in Denver, Colorado, in 1942 during World War II. Photograph taken while Allen was stationed at Lowry Field as an Aviation Cadet studying Air Forces photography to serve as an aerial reconnaissance photographer. This photograph was taken as part of Allen’s Aviation Cadet Detachment “Class 5-43-F” photography class training [1942].
From Charles M. Allen Jr. Papers, WWII 141, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Kit: Graflex Speed Graphic 5x4 • Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar-S 150mm f/5.6
Exp: Fomapan 100 5x4 Sheet Film • Exposed for 80 secs • f/45 • ISO 100
Dev: R09 ONE SHOT (Rodinal) • 1+50 • 8 mins • 20 degrees C • Scanned with Epson V700
It's the same tree, just shot from the opposite direction and from a high perspective. I shot this one at f/45 to see how the lens would perform.
I would definitely have preferred it if I could shoot it with a cleaner background but there just isn't another good angle that I could find. I quite like how the village of Hume looks in the background, but I think it might be a bit distracting as the tree overlaps with it.
Film 4x5 inch Shanghai 100 asa
Developed in Amaloco
Toning: Moersch Selentoner
1:20, 50sec.
Paper: Brovia speed BS 310 PE 2
Part of the project
Strangers in paradise
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Another shot from the Speed Graphic, this one cropped square because I had a slight overlap in exposures on this frame for some reason. Again a nice level of detail from the old Kodak lens.
Graphlex Speed Graphic, 6X9 120 back
Kodak Ektar 127mm f4.7 lens in Kodak Supermatic shutter
Rollei Retro 400s
12 minutes in FotoSpeed FD10
Shanghai 100 4x5 negative, D76, stock
Brovira Speed BS310 PE 2
Moersch Masterlith 1-15,
Selentoner 1-20, 1 min.
Haven't had a chance to shoot it yet, but my film holders are loaded and ready to go for when I get a spare minute.
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Part of the project: Strangers in Paradise
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Kaarel Erma, Ardu 2008
Graflex Speed Graphic, 9x12cm,
Schneider Kreutznach Xenar 135mm,
EFKE PL 100
Developed in Rodinal, 1+25, 6min
Rob Rackstraw, exhausted from his Town Crier duties at Phillipa and Dylan's wedding reception, but before his controversial Mariachi excursion.
Graflex Speed Graphic, Optar 135mm F4.7. Polaroid Type 54 instant. Vivitar 285 handheld.