Hee!Hee!!! Sweet!!

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That is the only reason I keep my Speed Graphic. You can put anything on those and go to town.

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Sweet!

Now all you need is one of these little iris thingies:


 

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Nice deal! I love mine for checking all those weirdo lenses that turn up in shows, auctions and friends' collections. (current crop include three goerz double anastigmats, a Koehler double anastigmat and a Euryplan - just about anything that is too short for the 8x10 I jury-rigged with a packard).

And yes, it would be nice to have one of those, Ole, but you keep buying all of them! Guess the rest of us have to be adept at quick lens board cobbles.
 
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Ole said:
Sweet!

Now all you need is one of these little iris thingies:


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I'd love one, but I heard they were all snapped up by some North Sea Viking Lord....
 

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JBrunner said:
I'd love one, but I heard they were all snapped up by some North Sea Viking Lord....
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Not all of them - just the cheap ones from Germany.

That little one on the Speed Graphic is the smallest one I've seen, BTW. And even that only fits on the board with a very carefully calculated rotation; there is a very good reason why it's sitting at exactly that angle!

And of course after scouring every auction site on the planet for one over a period of several months, I found this one lurking at the bottom of a box of "miscellaneous junk" I'd bought on ebay a year earlier, because the whole box was far cheaper than either of the nine cable releases that was in it...
 
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It showed up yesterday. I used the 545 holder in my Crown last night, and it's a winner.

The lens # (EO447) dates dates the Speed to 1946. The fp shutter is up and running well, after finding the correct tension. Is there an easy way to lube the FP shutter? Sounds a little dry, but working smoothly.
 

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I bought a small pick-up from a fellow in San Francisco about 15 years ago. After sealing the deal we got to talking about photography and I happened to have my portfolio and showed him some prints. He left the room and came back with a camera similar to the one you got -- he ended up giving it to me. I haven't tested the rear shutter for accuracy, but it seems to be close when I shot a few Polaroids with it.

The truck has long bit the dust, but the camera still works!

Vaughn
 
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It works:

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