Photo-Chimp.com » large format http://www.photo-chimp.com Making pictures happen Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:39:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Had my hands on a Speed Graphic http://www.photo-chimp.com/2009/07/27/had-my-hands-on-a-speed-graphic/ http://www.photo-chimp.com/2009/07/27/had-my-hands-on-a-speed-graphic/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:42:22 +0000 Eric W http://www.photo-chimp.com/?p=615 well, for a few minutes at least.  The one I had my hands on was one of the older (70′s?  60′s?) models, the type that had originally been used by the press. It was great: bellows (with holes, unfortunately), all manual switches & dials, 4×5 film size, even a plate on the back for viewing – and true to large-format cameras, you view it upside down.

So, why mention in here?  Just because it’s cool.  I mean, how often to you get your hands on a large-format camera with bellows?

More on the camera (from Wikipedia).

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