Newest addition to the collection: Graflex Pacemaker Century Graphic (pictured here with my 4x5 Pacemaker Crown). It's like a press camera, but smaller - this guy shoots 2.25x3.25" sheet film, or various 120 formats with the appropriate replacement back (my 6x9cm back is still in the mail, sadly). This one came with a fairly standard configuration - top viewfinder, side rangefinder (which is still mostly in alignment!), and then the lens is the Graflex Graflar 101mm f/4.5 (bad) in a Prontor-SVS shutter (worse). Assuming I like the shooting experience well enough I'll probably try to pick up one of the Kodak or Rodenstock lenses that were available.
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in reply to @wolf-apparatus's post:
Lovely, I got a Speed Graphic a couple of weeks ago that needs some attention and I can't wait to get out and shoot it. It's my first large format camera.
Somehow despite now having three Graflex press cameras none of them is a Speed (ok, I guess I technically have a Super Speed Graphic but it doesn't count). I guess I've just always looked at them like "ehhhhhh I dunno that whole focal plane shutter business seems real fiddly". Maybe when I finally find that thrift store Aero Ektar :p
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