Want to Buy WTB: Miniature Graphic Focus Panel

Old-N-Feeble · Aug 1, 2014

I don't need the entire back... just the panel. I can't afford to spend much. I'm just trying to make this camera salable to raise badly needed funds.

Jim Jones · Aug 2, 2014

Ouch! Graflex back! That means Graflex film or plate holders, too.

Old-N-Feeble · Aug 2, 2014

Yeah... slotted DDS or RFH but that's up to the buyer.

Old-N-Feeble · Aug 6, 2014

* bump *

Dan Fromm · Aug 8, 2014

ONF, since you're trying to sell it your best bet is to sell it as is and let the buyer find:

a 2x3 Graflex (to fit Graflex SLR) focusing panel or
a 2x3 Graflex (to fit Graflex SLR) film pack adapter and make it into a focusing panel or
a 2x3 Graphic back (spring back to fit a 2x3 Graphic) and swap it with the Graflok back now on the camera.

Finding a 2x3 Graflex focusing panel or FPA will take longer than you have, finding a spring back and doing a swap yourself may cost you more than the complete and usable camera will bring.

Sell it as is for what it will bring and get out from under.

Old-N-Feeble · Aug 8, 2014

Dan... you may have saved my bacon again. I'd rather not swap backs but the idea of converting a film pack adapter is intriguing especially since I already have several of those. Do you have a "how to" link? If it's too time-consuming then I suspect you're probably right regarding time and money spent. I just thought I'd try one time to find the panel.

Dan Fromm · Aug 8, 2014

Old-N-Feeble said:
Dan... you may have saved my bacon again. I'd rather not swap backs but the idea of converting a film pack adapter is intriguing especially since I already have several of those. Do you have a "how to" link? If it's too time-consuming then I suspect you're probably right regarding time and money spent. I just thought I'd try one time to find the panel.

I don't have a "how to" link, the job doesn't need much explanation. Remove the FPA's back. If there's a film pack in it, cut the pack's front off and press it into the FPA, glue it in place from behind around the edges. If you don't have a 2x3 film pack, get one. They often live in plain ordinary non-Graflex back FPAs. Cut a piece of ground glass to fit flush on the shim. It can't rest on the glue, it has to be flush on the shim. And there you are.

If you don't have a film pack and don't want to get one, the GG has to be shimmed 0.25 mm back from the inside front of the FPA. This because that's where the film in the pack actually sits.

Old-N-Feeble · Aug 8, 2014

Okay... sounds simple enough. Thank you, Dan.

Want to Buy WTB: Miniature Graphic Focus Panel

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