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Graflex Users Workshop Proposal later this summer in Tonopah Nevada


Sonny, most of us are older than you. So what were going to do? Make oval wheels for your Model T?
 

Jacques Henri Lartigue and his camera

Jacques Henri Lartigue was an extraordinary photographer. He was a recreatonal photographer and did not have to earn his money with photography, being born in a wealthy family. At a tender age he produced good photographs, which he continued to do until he died. His photographs were often...
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from the above site (its quite a long thread):


 
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jimgalli said:
Actually we're right at the fence of area 52 so folks should get their will in order and plan on being abducted by UFO's. We'd definitely make some memorable history though.
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Would be really cool to get a Speed Graphic into a flying saucer and get some shots. Of course we already learned in the Simpson's that all you can really see is a Pong game...

 
One of the four cars in the race (at least a partly restored car) was auctioned by Bonhams and provides some of its history:

Bonhams Cars : 1913 Th. Schneider 5.6-litre Grand Prix Two Seater Chassis no. 14122 Engine no. 22

Company founder Théodore Schneider was a racer at heart – he had taken part in competition at the tiller of a Rochet-Schneider (a company he had also founded) as early as 1896– so it was quite in character that he should enter a team of four cars for the 1913 French Grand Prix, each fitted with...
www.bonhams.com

...and better get out your camera's to a race like this one:

and another picture of the car at the 1913 race:
 
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I recently acquired a 4x5 Graphic with a working focal plane shutter. I've enjoyed this thread. If one doesn't own any barrel lenses, can you simply leave the lens (in shutter) on "B' and use the FP shutter? Sorry if that's a ridiculous question. The Speed Graphic info is scattered quite far and wide on the various forums.

I dig the Model A's that a few of you have too. Very cool.
 

If we get back on topic now, but summer we might actually be able to pull off this workshop.
 
Yes of course. Your leaf shutter lens on B or T is exactly the same as a barrel lens.
 
MTGseattle said:
If one doesn't own any barrel lenses, can you simply leave the lens (in shutter) on "B' and use the FP shutter?
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I'd use "T", or the "Focus mode" if it's a Graphex shutter-- actually, I have used it that way. Works fine.
 
Keep in mind that the fastest top speed for a race car in 1908 was a Fiat that achieved an average speed of nearly 150 MPH on a one mile course. On a public road. I'm old, but actually didn't attend this event, so blame google if they're incorrect.

The car shown in the op's original post could have been going roughly 100 MPH in a straight line. The tilted wheels thing was due to a shutter curtain that ran vertically from top to bottom. I had assumed that it went horizontally.
 
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Doh, the Ford is breathing really hard at 65 mph.
 
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