[LargeFormat] Large Format SLR

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Self capping means that it won't re-expose the film when you wind the 
shutter back up.

this is easier to do when you have two sheets of cloth and us a 
mechanical means to vary the time/distance between them creating the 
slit.

The earliest Graflex (circa 1900) used this without success. That's 
when William Folmer invented his single piece "roller blind" shutter
(I always wondered if he quoted Carol Burnett in her send up of Gone 
with the wind....."I saw it in the window and just had to have it")

You just have to remember to put that darkslide back in before winding.

Les


On Wednesday, February 11, 2004, at 04:42  AM, Jim Hemenway wrote:

> Hi Richard:
>
> > The Graflex shutter is very simple but
> > is not self capping and is not uniform in exposure.
> > This last can be quite noticable at higher speeds
> > and especially when the film in the vertical position.
>
> What is meant by "self-capping".
>
> So far I haven't noticed any non-uniform exposures but thanks for the 
> heads-up.  I've only used it for horizontal shots.
>
> Jim - http://www.hemenway.com
>
>
> Richard Knoppow wrote:
>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Hemenway" <Jim@hemenway.com>
>> To: "Large Format Group" <largeformat@f32.net>
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 9:31 AM
>> Subject: [LargeFormat] Large Format SLR
>>> The $1,000 I paid for my Graflex, plus $500 to Grimes for
>> overhauling
>>> it, doesn't seem too much now after seeing the price for
>> this.
>>> http://www.wisner.com/freedom.htm
>>> -- 
>>>
>>> Jim - http://www.hemenway.com
>>>
>>   Astonishing. I wonder if it has an automatic diaphragm or
>> a more complex shutter than the Graflex. There were other
>> SLR's and press cameras with regulated, self-capping, focal
>> plane shutters. Among them the well known Zeiss Miroflex.
>> The shutter in the Miroflex was an ancestor of the Contax
>> shutter. Busch also offered a self capping focal plane
>> shutter on one version of its press camera. I've never seen
>> one for sale. I think this camera was made to meet the
>> military spec for the Speed Graphic but it was also offered
>> as a civilian model. The Graflex shutter is very simple but
>> is not self capping and is not uniform in exposure. This
>> last can be quite noticable at higher speeds and especially
>> when the film in the vertical position.
>> I got my Super-D before prices went up, its a favorite
>> camera but most modern photographers would probably think it
>> clumsey (its not).
>> ---
>> Richard Knoppow
>> Los Angeles, CA, USA
>> dickburk@ix.netcom.com
>
>
>
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