For Sale FS-Reflex Viewer for 4x5 Speed Graphic

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psychoanalyst_god

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I got this when I started off in LF and it was a god-send. This allows you to view and focus an UPRIGHT image instead of an inverted one on the ground glass.

I got it off a Polaroid MP4 assembly, but shaved off the metal posts on the side to adapt it to my Speed. It is in good condition, the mirror is clean. It comes with a built in magnifier.

Note: You might benefit from an extra bit of shaving of the metal post since it gets in the way of the back somewhat. But I leave that to you. It was less of a problem for me because I used the bungee cords shown in the picture and it holds it just fine. I can include the cord if you want.

Asking for $100 (OBO)+shipping.

Avi

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Hi there,

Do you know if this will fit a Super Speed Graphic?

Many thanks

Casey
 

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Thanks for the quick reply and for the welcome Ian. Excuse my ignorance but is your reply in the negative or the positive? Will it fit my Super Speed Graphic?
Thanks again.
Casey
 

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It does not seem to me that it would fit your camera.
For the Super Graphic you want a Cambo SC focusing screen- the rear half of the non-revolving Cambo 4x5 graflok back, it will attach just like your Super Graphic focusing screen, and it will hold a Cambo reflex viewer. These are both fairly common items. They cost more money, but the solution is "plug and play" and works very well in the field. You would also need a fresnel on the rear side of the ground glass or you won't see the corners with many lenses.

According to Ian, the sellers hood would not fit your Super Graphic back.
I am not sure, but it might be possible to modify this hood. Others have done similar, modifying a Polaroid MP-4 hood to fit a Super Graphic. Try searching google for ["super graphic"] and [mp-4 reflex hood] and you may find details on that modification. This might be a MP-4 hood, it looks like one to me, but I am not an expert on that item. Such a modification would require work and research by you or your repair person.
 

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Thanks for the replies Ian and Thebes. I'm off to do some research.
Regards
Casey
 
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This is a Polaroid mp4 hood.I modified it to fit th speed with the bungee cords, but I am not sure if it will fit the super speed back.

Still available, so let me kno if there is interest.

Thanks.

Avi
 

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The MP-4 Reflex viewer can be made to fit a Speed/Crown Pacemaker Graphic very easily according to this web-page. That would seem to indicate it's too wide for the Super Graphic.

I've been using the focus screen frame off my Cambo Cadet for the past year on my Super Graphic and so as Thebes says that's gives the option of using a Cambo reflex viewer.

Despite the Graflok backs being called International backs the fittings aren't standard so a focus screen panel off a Pacemaker Graphic won't attach to a Super Graphic, neither will the panel from a Cambo revolving back as I've found out the hard way before eventually finding a Super Graphic back on here on APUG a couple of weeks ago.

Ian
 
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