This is a gem -- a very clean Pre-Anniversary Speed Graphic with a spring back, tight bellows and a recently serviced Compur shutter. The serial number dates it to about 1938, the lens to 1937, and you may thing 82 years sounds old but please, read on!
A friend and I are selling gear to raise funds for the Catholic Community Services food bank in Ogden, Utah. January has been cold here, local families are having to choose between food and utilities. One family just died in their home because they couldn't handle the situation and their utilities were shut off.
This camera is particularly nice: It has an uncoated Zeiss Jena Tessar lens, 135mm f. 4.5. The bellows are light tight and not dried out. Leather covering on the camera is intact and only showing minor wear. Focus track works smoothly, the rear shutter works very precisely and accurately. Ground glass is intact. The hardware on the camera is all black, which makes me wonder if it is a military model, but nothing on it says so.
The front shutter? It was serviced just two years ago by Mark Hansen, who did a LOT of work on it and it is working really well, like new, good for another 50 years, at least. His comments and post-service test results are included here.
BAD: The rangefinder does not work. I dunno why. Scale focus is your friend, or the ground glass.
Everything else is tip-top. I particularly like the folding optical finder instead of the later tubular finder -- hold it away from you, line the peep sight up with the cross-lines on the finder lens and you have a very accurate image of what the camera sees -- I've shot with this and it's really easy to use. Kind of fun.
So: $300 delivers it along with the data from Mark Hansen's service. This is ready to shoot.
Your entire $300 price goes to the food bank -- I eat the fees and pay the postage myself, my part of the deal. If you pick it up here in Ogden, Utah, I'll buy you lunch and show you where all the houses of ill repute used to be. I can even arrange for you to hand your $300 directly to the food bank director, at which point I'll take your picture with the camera and then hand it to you.
Deal? Paypal, money order, cash, first money gets it Paypal to summicron12000@yahoo.com
Thanks for looking,
Charlie Trentelman
Ogden, Utah
A friend and I are selling gear to raise funds for the Catholic Community Services food bank in Ogden, Utah. January has been cold here, local families are having to choose between food and utilities. One family just died in their home because they couldn't handle the situation and their utilities were shut off.
This camera is particularly nice: It has an uncoated Zeiss Jena Tessar lens, 135mm f. 4.5. The bellows are light tight and not dried out. Leather covering on the camera is intact and only showing minor wear. Focus track works smoothly, the rear shutter works very precisely and accurately. Ground glass is intact. The hardware on the camera is all black, which makes me wonder if it is a military model, but nothing on it says so.
The front shutter? It was serviced just two years ago by Mark Hansen, who did a LOT of work on it and it is working really well, like new, good for another 50 years, at least. His comments and post-service test results are included here.
BAD: The rangefinder does not work. I dunno why. Scale focus is your friend, or the ground glass.
Everything else is tip-top. I particularly like the folding optical finder instead of the later tubular finder -- hold it away from you, line the peep sight up with the cross-lines on the finder lens and you have a very accurate image of what the camera sees -- I've shot with this and it's really easy to use. Kind of fun.
So: $300 delivers it along with the data from Mark Hansen's service. This is ready to shoot.
Your entire $300 price goes to the food bank -- I eat the fees and pay the postage myself, my part of the deal. If you pick it up here in Ogden, Utah, I'll buy you lunch and show you where all the houses of ill repute used to be. I can even arrange for you to hand your $300 directly to the food bank director, at which point I'll take your picture with the camera and then hand it to you.
Deal? Paypal, money order, cash, first money gets it Paypal to summicron12000@yahoo.com
Thanks for looking,
Charlie Trentelman
Ogden, Utah
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