Film not all serious cameras were compact!

[docfox]

My first serious camera was a Graflex Super-D, a large single-lens-reflex that used 3-1/4 x 4-1/4 inch cut film. It was built in 1946 and purchased by me around 1962. I still have it and every once in a while I produce an image with it! Click on the following link to read about this marvel of modern (for its era) technology.

The Graflex SLR.pdf

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[drd1135]

That viewfinder looks like a turtleneck sweater. Each photo was more important back then.

 

[rybolt]

That focal plane shutter was diabolical.

 

[john m flores]

Expect a visit from Amazon's attorneys for violating their white seamless studio photo patent. :tongue:

Seriously, was that model made for inclement weather or something?

 

[Landshark]

I have one of those in a box somewhere

 

[romi.gilles]

that WAS the box.

 

[carlb]

Pics! Post!

 

[dougjgreen]

My favorite Non-compact is the 8x10 Gowlandflex TLR:

http://www.petergowland.com/camera/history/

They also made a more "compact" 4x5 model, that was a bit more practical:

http://www.petergowland.com/camera/index.html

 

[pdh]

Hmm I dunno, I can't help thinking that if I put it down somewhere without thinking, I might easily mislay it