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Folmer & Schwing Graflex 3A
Folmer & Schwing Graflex 3A
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Date Uploaded: Apr 1, 2010

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 Folmer & Schwing Graflex 3A; this one, dated between 1907-1912.

"Folmer & Schwing" started as a bicycle company, then began making cameras in the late 1890's. From 1905 to 1926 it was a division of Kodak, then went on to form an independent company in the name of Folmer Graflex, then just plain Graflex.

this beast won't win any beauty contests - but it has the distinction of being one of the first SLRs - that is, the viewfinder image is right side up and you can see to focus through the viewfinder

Originally takes "postcard size" 122 film, but this particular specimen has had the film spools altered in the back to accept 120 film (with a mask for 6x4.5) - hope to try it out soon (but it needs a lot of cleaning first, and I haven't checked yet if the bellows needs fixing). I also want to make more masks, for 6x6 and a mask that allows the full width, so perhaps I can get some panoramas out of it.

More info, if of interest:

Graflex 3A

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 04/03/2010 11:46:27 PM
If you want to work on the bellows yourself, you may want to try "liquid electric tape", which is basically black liquid rubber. If there are big holes, you can put tape with a tiny bit of wax paper on it over the hole, then paint the liquid on, and remove the tape when the liquid is dry. I have used it for several fixups on old cars to repair cracked rubber weather seals, and it works great.
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 04/03/2010 11:10:41 PM
Oh, cool.
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 04/03/2010 09:43:00 PM
Nice camera. Glad you're going to use it, can't wait to see the results.
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 04/03/2010 09:42:37 PM
Sweet! Must be larger than it looks. The woman holding the camera in the link looks like she has her hands full. 1/1000 top shutter speed was a surprise to see too.
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