werra
10-Aug-2012, 21:45
Hello all,
Can anyone help to date the pictured camera? This is older bother of 5x7 Speed Graphic if I understand correctly? Front plate says Folmer & Schwing, divison of Kodak Co, Rochester.
Interestingly there seem never been any leather covering, just naked wood, painted black. Or it has been carefully removed sometime in the past.
Shutter speeds go the usual 1/10-1/1000, or at least did when new :) Currently the slower speeds are OK, faster ones are a bit tricky as the curtain has pinholes.
But other than that it is in great usable shape for 100(?) years old camera. Weighs pretty much the same as metal 4x5 Super Graphic.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8289/7756731838_e0ff8f1b76_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/werra/7756731838/in/photostream)
Enno
Can anyone help to date the pictured camera? This is older bother of 5x7 Speed Graphic if I understand correctly? Front plate says Folmer & Schwing, divison of Kodak Co, Rochester.
Interestingly there seem never been any leather covering, just naked wood, painted black. Or it has been carefully removed sometime in the past.
Shutter speeds go the usual 1/10-1/1000, or at least did when new :) Currently the slower speeds are OK, faster ones are a bit tricky as the curtain has pinholes.
But other than that it is in great usable shape for 100(?) years old camera. Weighs pretty much the same as metal 4x5 Super Graphic.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8289/7756731838_e0ff8f1b76_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/werra/7756731838/in/photostream)
Enno