My latest addition is a really nice 3X4 pre-Anniversary. It is SN 229303 and has a Kodak No. 31 Anastigmat 5 1/2" f4.5 in a dial set Compur. The hardware is gray paint, except for the Speed Graphic badge on the top lens slider which is bright. Could someone date it, please?

This camera also has the very early Kalart RF that was discussed on an earlier post; the one with the external linkage. Did the factory install these, or were they only installed aftermarket?

There is a flash bracket encircling the RF; it is clearly made to fit this odd, long RF. It has a female rail about 1/2" by 2". The part that puzzles me is that there is no provison for flash synchronization evident. Unless they were using open flash there does not seem to be any reason to have added it.

The accessory rangefinder may have been factory or dealer installed but the description I finally found on them is in an advertisement in the 1947 edition of Graflex Graphic Photography. That would seem to indicate that it was installed later, after the war.

made in '38. I suspect these were a factory option.
The flash bracket sounds like an early Heiland.
Heiland also made solenoids that fit the cable release socket.

Without getting off my butt and going to look at it, a Kalart flash gun with the synchronized cable release probably fits that bracket, too.

I have to back the wizard; sounds like a Heiland thumb-lever shoe.
The Kalarts I've seen fit the same rail as the Graflex flashgun bracket, i.e. the one on the Kalart RF.
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