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Graflex R B Super D

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Graflex R B Super D
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This item SOLD at 2015 Apr 17 @ 15:45UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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The RB Super D, which features a semi-automatic diaphragm, was produced in 3¼×4¼ (1941-1963) and 4 x 5 (1948-1957) formats. This model is the 3¼×4¼ version with a Graflex Model 2 Film Pack Adapter.



The Graflex is a single-lens reflex camera, first produced in 1898 in New York, N.Y by the Folmer & Schwing Manufacturing Company of New York, NY. In the early years it was made in a variety of formats, settling down in the 1920s to a number of long-lived models which share the same basic design and mode of operation.



The Graflex vertical focal-plane shutter consists of a single curtain with a series of four slits of widths from 1½ inches to 1/8; inch. The shutter spring can be set to six different tensions. Different combinations of slit width and spring tension allow a choice of 24 speeds ranging from 1/10 to 1/1000 as well as Time. When the shutter is released, the mirror swings up and triggers the curtain to travel from top to bottom. In the last models the tension settings were reduced to a simple High and Low, permitting 8 different speeds.



The standard lenses are for the most part f/4.5 Kodak Anastigmats and, in later years, Kodak Ektars. This model has a Kodak Ektar.



From the collection of Don Dondero.

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Date: 1947

FHWAC#: 25828