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Graflex Crown Graphics lensboard
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do you know if a lens mounted on a sinar lensboard fits a 4x5 Crown Graphics? Thanks. -- Kamox |
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Graflex Crown Graphics lensboard
On Feb 28, 9:37*am, "Kamox" wrote:
Hello, do you know if a lens mounted on a sinar lensboard fits a 4x5 Crown Graphics? Thanks. -- Kamox The lens might, but the Sinar lens board is too big for a Crown Graphic. To use the lens with a Crown Graphic you'll need to either change the board or improvise an adapter (since the Sinar board is much bigger than a Graphic board, this will probably be quite inconvenient). |
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Graflex Crown Graphics lensboard
Along those lines--anyone have a history of Speed Graphic lensboards? I
have seen several different ones that are not compatible. I am going to wind up having to make one for some Linhof-mounted lenses, and a drawing would be very helpful--anyone? David Kamox wrote: Hello, do you know if a lens mounted on a sinar lensboard fits a 4x5 Crown Graphics? Thanks. |
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Graflex Crown Graphics lensboard
"David Kazdan" wrote in message . net... Along those lines--anyone have a history of Speed Graphic lensboards? I have seen several different ones that are not compatible. I am going to wind up having to make one for some Linhof-mounted lenses, and a drawing would be very helpful--anyone? David Kamox wrote: Hello, do you know if a lens mounted on a sinar lensboard fits a 4x5 Crown Graphics? Thanks. See http://www.graflex.org This lists the various models of Speed Graphics and other Graflex made cameras along with lensboard sizes. There was a change in the size and type of lensboard used on the Speed Graphic when it went from the Anniversary to the Pacemaker series about 1947. The older boards were wood and the new ones stamped metal of a different size and design. The wooden boards were used on the Anniversary series (1939 to 1947) and on the earlier "pre-anniversary" models. Each size of camera has its own size board. There is an adaptor to use 4x5 Pacemaker boards on older 4x5 cameras but AFAIK, there were never adaptors for other size cameras. The Graphic View uses metal lens boards of the same design as used on the 4x5 Anniversary Speed Graphic, they are interchangible. I am not sure what size board the 5x7 Speed Graphic used but it was a relatively small wood board. Crown Graphics originated with the introduction of the Pacemaker series so there were none that used wooden boards. Folmer & Schwing, and its successor Graflex Inc., also made the famous Graflex SLR cameras. These used different lens boards than the Speed or Crown Graphic or Graphic made view cameras. In general each size and model had its own board. See the Graflex site for more about this. Graflex also made the Crown View camera, a low cost 4x5 camera until about 1947. I think this used the same lens board as the 4x5 Anniversary Graphic. F&S and Graflex also made view cameras for Kodak which were sold under the Kodak or Century name. The 4"x4" wood boards as used on the Anniversary Graphic were also used on a number of other cameras including the Burke & James press camera. These are easy boards to make (as are most wood boards) but the Pacemaker boards are not. You pretty much have to have an original. Note that the boards used on the Super-Graphic are the same size as the Pacemaker boards but have additonal lock bumps on them. The board for the Super-Speed-Graphic also has an electrical fitting for the shutter tripper. -- --- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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Graflex Crown Graphics lensboard
Thanks, Richard, as always. That answers the question. I did make one
duplicate of the wood one that fit fairly well, and that explains why a dealer handed me a stamped metal arrangement that looked nothing like what I needed. David Richard Knoppow wrote: "David Kazdan" wrote in message . net... Along those lines--anyone have a history of Speed Graphic lensboards? I have seen several different ones that are not compatible. I am going to wind up having to make one for some Linhof-mounted lenses, and a drawing would be very helpful--anyone? David See http://www.graflex.org This lists the various models of Speed Graphics and other Graflex made cameras along with lensboard sizes. etc. |
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