[LargeFormat] Speed Graphic 2x3

[Les Newcomer]

> From: "philip.lambert"
> 
> Thanks Les, you are a mine of information.
Thanks.  As my wife puts it, "When it comes to useless information Les is
just full of it."

> My Century 2x3 has a grey body,
> red bellows and a minimum lens panel to Beattie screen of 35mm.  I am
> tempted to experiment with something very wide. At the moment I am wondering
> how to contrive a recessed lens panel for the 47mm so as to ease the
> compression of the bellows to permit more rising front. Protrusions from the
> shutter such as the cable socket make difficulties.

If you can take a look at a 58mm Grandagon on a Graflex XL. The watch
battery sized shutter is so small they had to make a remote link for a cable
release, and looong levers so fat fingered photographers could actually move
the shutter and aperture. These can be converted to fit a 4x5 Crown with a
little work and no recessed board!  Every time I've looked at a recessed
board I've come to the same conclusion-- by the time you get the shutter
recessed, there's no way to work/cock the shutter!

>The lensboard must be
> one of the smallest ever on a rollfilm camera..... Does anybody sell the
> metal lensboards with the folded edges?

Yes I know Midwest Camera Exchange sells them, other camera companies have
advertised them too. Occasionally they put them up on ebay, so that might be
a link to them.
> Philip
> 
> From: "Les Newcomer"
> Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Speed Graphic 2x3
> 
> 
>> There were several decorative models of the Century 2x3 (technically not a
>> Speed Graphic since it lacks the 1/1000th shutter speed of the FPS)  but
> I'm
>> not aware of any physical changes between the models other than the color
> of
>> the leatherette (black, grey, red) and the color of the bellows  (black ,
>> red)
>> 
>> Graflex is well known for giving contradictory information and this is a
>> classic case in point.  In one table they show the Century 2x3 being
> capable of using (and I
>> inferred "limited to") a 2 1/2" (65mm) lens.
>> 
>> But on another table they list the flange focus as only 1 3/8"  or
> according
>> to my c1930 slide rule--35.5mm  Unless you are using a retro-focus* lens
> the
>> nodal point  (the point where the focal lenght is measured from) is
> usually
>> BEHIND the flange and therefore SHORTER than the flange distance.
>> 
> 
> 
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