thinking about this a day or so later I realize that the 2-d is only the 2nd oldest.
The first LF in my life and still in the cabnet is an early Pre=Annaversary Graphic. I got it at one of the first camera shows I ever went to during the mid eighties in Houston. It has been re built or re-created by someone who salvaged a junker by gutting the shutter and removing all leather and other hardware (leather covering handle strap finder and RF etc) The holes in the body have bondo filling them. The bellows were replaced I think and the wood painted black inside and out. I replaced the spring back with a Graflok (they were surplis-cheap then().
I took the first images with that bellows-on-a-box by mounting a 135mm zeis tessar on a dial set compur shutter.
stilll have this set-up in a cabnet at home.
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