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| dovaka Joined: 08 Jan 2015 Posts: 2 |  Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2015 1:26 am Post subject: Help me identify this cameraIm not sure what kind of speed graphic this is. and cant seem to find any info about it. can anyone shed some light on it for me? http://imgur.com/4z15CHz http://imgur.com/LLaXSFd http://imgur.com/xeStGJO http://imgur.com/V7nKnJe |
| Sirius Glass Joined: 06 Jun 2010 Posts: 162 | Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2015 3:48 am You have a Kodak Aero lens http://lommen9.home.xs4all.nl/aero/ http://www.johndesq.com/graflex/aeromemorandum.htm http://www.johndesq.com/graflex/aeromemorandum.htm on a Speed Graphic combat camera. |
| dovaka Joined: 08 Jan 2015 Posts: 2 | Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2015 5:09 am is there any info on one with that body style? everyone i find has a more traditional belows style. this is just a solid tube body with mounting lugs on it. |
| Dan Fromm Joined: 14 May 2001 Posts: 2165 | Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2015 12:59 pm Not factory issue. Highly modified, also spelled hack job. And if you want to ask about the camera, show the camera body, not the lens. |
| William Hallett Joined: 07 Jan 2012 Posts: 103 | Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2015 3:05 pm The shutter speed plate is marked Folmer and Schwing Division, Eastman Kodak. That would make it 1926 or earlier, as 1926 was the year that Kodak was ordered to divest itself of Folmer and Schwing, and any later date would have read Folmer Graflex. I think what you have is a "top handle" Speed Graphic body which has been extensively modified to take the lens. |
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