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primus96 · Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 9:25 am Post subject:

You may have seen the well known image of Weegee with his Speed Graphic & flashgun.
he's holding it two handed with a cigar in the corner of his mouth.I think the image dates from 1944.

Well the camera made me look closer.
I may be wrong but it looks like a late pre-anniversary model. The rear part of the sports finder has no 'slot' in it.
Were there any pre-anniversary S.G.s with a non rounded wire frame sports viewfinder?
The case of the camera has the pin stripe lining.

Les · Joined: 09 May 2001 Posts: 2682 Location: Detroit, MI

This photo?
http://www.icp.org/weegee/

I'm not sure what you mean by the rear sight has no "slot".

This is an Anny, but a confused one. The rear peepsight is correct for Anny's from '40-'41, the slider on the front however LOOKS like it has black italic letters rather than silver block letters on a black field---the italic letters are from a late Anny-post 45 or so.

If you do a good search on Weegee, you see that he used all three major models of Speeds.....Pre-Ann, Ann and Pace

[ This Message was edited by: Les on 2003-11-22 05:55 ]

primus96 · Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 5:37 pm Post subject:

The photograph is a bit bleached out in the area of the front lens board.
However the only Anniversaries I have seen had the later version of rear peep sight. obviously Graflex used up their exisiting inventory of peep sights.

pberg · Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 5 Location: Wayne, N.J.

pberg · Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 5 Location: Wayne, N.J.