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Graphic View I
On Apr 19, 11:47 am, darkroommike wrote:
I get it, like the much battered Nikon F that a "real" press photographer uses, a Graphic View needs a home-brew lensboard. OK, I still want one original for looks but talked to my local model railroad dealer yesterday and he has all kinds of basswood and plywood in ready-cut 4 inch wide sheets I figure I can produce several boards for just a few bucks. Also I think the Crown Graphic View is also very pretty just darn rare, only made a couple of yeas and discontinued when the metal Graphic View I was introduced. And the Pacemaker Graphic is attractive in a form follows function industrial design way, no great beauty but pretty ergonomic for a camera designed decades before the concept became a big ballyhoo. I have a link to a guy that "butchered" a Graphic View to make a real wide angle camera, if my CAS (Camera Acquisition Syndrome) keeps kicking in I'll have enough parts before I'm finished to build a Wide Angle Camera but I want mine to have RED bellows. http://bigcamera.com/articles/GraphicViewStubby.htm CAS is similar to NAS which is the disease that the Nikon MF group on Yahoo talks about all the time, so CAS is not original just very descriptive of my affliction. Before eBay I only got the opportunity to buy stuff at camera shows now it gets me everyday, probably why I haven't any money to fix up what I already have! darkroommike Nicholas O. Lindan wrote: "darkroommike" wrote I just picked up a Graphic View I (base tilts) and fell in love with its Art Deco Look. I had one when a student, and I agree about the looks -- a very pretty camera, as is the View II. I think they were the only really good looking cameras Graflex made. Graflex must have gone outside the company for the design. it needs a few parts to complete and a few minor repairs. So I have a few questions: Can someone suggest a few sources of parts, I see Richard has already pointed you to Graflex.org and Lustig. I need the front lens board retaining clip, and some parts for the focus drive on one of the standards. My View I, in its previous existence, originally belonged to the Cleveland Police department. It was _really_ worn out and the bushings and gears for the standard-to-rail adjustment assys were shot. I had a machinist look at making new parts but the cost wasn't worth it. Oh and a couple of un-drilled metal lens boards (I know I can make the boards from plywood but want to stay original). I made boards by laminating chip-board from the back of legal pads to the right thickness. Died them black with Kiwi sole edge-dressing and soaked them in thinned Waterlox to waterproof them. I have seen lots of people with Masonite boards. A Graphic View with an original board may be a fashion faux pas. I know that isn't the answer you are looking for, but in case you can't find OE boards... My biggest gripe was the inability to use a WA lens. A 90mm Angulon would just fit in the recessed lens board and focus at infinity but the bellows were compressed tight and movements were impossible (which, since and Angulon doesn't have any extra coverage to allow for movements, wasn't that big a deal).- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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