[LargeFormat] Graflex Book - Speed and Crown

[Les Newcomer]

thanks Clive.  I actually have a mini with the proper graflok back and a set
of Graphic Graflexes, I'm missing a 6th edtion but I have one signed by
Morgan and Lester made out to Torkel Korling, the author of the early
children's portraiture chapter and inventor of the auto diaphragm lens used
on the Super D.  Is it true the only difference between printings of say
your 8th editions is the advertising in the back?

Now those instructions books might come in handy.... and wouldn't cost an
arm and a leg to mail either...

Morgan and Morgan is still around,  they still publish the Lab Book. The
original Morgan and Lester have gone to the big darkroom in the sky.  It
might be worth a phone call to find out if any of the original photographs
still exist and what act of Congress it would take to wrench them away.

> From: Clive Warren <cocam@cableinet.co.uk>
> Reply-To: largeformat@f32.net
> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:49:12 +0000
> To: largeformat@f32.net
> Subject: [LargeFormat] Graflex Book - Speed and Crown
> 
> At 6:25 pm -0800 23/2/02, Les Newcomer wrote:
> snip
>> Now on the flip side, I'm working towards working on a book about Speed and
>> Crown Cameras and all of their accessories and such.  The book needs to be
>> well illustrated and while part of me want's to shoot everything with a
>> (mini) speed graphic. That part quickly dissapears when I think of having to
>> print 150 'catalog shots' by hand to a very specific size.  On the other
>> hand, a CoolPix 950, some flourescent lights in a softbox, a roll of paper
>> and a frame of PVC and I've got a quick and efficient studio until dinner
>> time, when I have to clean off the table. And after dinner I can download,
>> size and shape in a tiny fraction of what it would take to get the Atwater
>> Kent* in the darkroom warmed up.
>> 
>> *it came with my Elwood Pattern Works enlarger.
>> 
>> les
> 
> Can understand the evangelist desire to use only Graflex products -
> if the company were still around you would be receiving job offers....
> 
> If you need any more shots then there is a range of Graflex products
> sitting around me here. One of the more unusual items is a Miniature
> Speed Graphic with a factory retro fitted Graflok back - let me know.
> Guess that you have Graphic Graflex  Photography books - on my
> shelves: 8th Edition 1947; 8th Edition (1950 printing); 8th Edition
> (1948 printing). There is a copyright statement from the publishers,
> Morgan and Lester - if they are still around they may allow repro in
> a good cause.
> 
> Also have some original instruction books for some items if I can
> remember where they are.....
> 
> Cheers,
> Clive
> 
> 
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