Watch for my Speed Graphic on C-SPAN! :)

Oops! I forgot to add the link to the House hearing: http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00JvoT

And the link to the C-SPAN schedule page: http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/fullschedule.csp?timeid=212038173436

That's hysterical. I bet a lot of the photogs are too young to even know what a Speed Graphic is, and probably wonder how many FPS it can shoot, whether it's shutter or aperture priority, and how the AF works!

Hmmm, it's aperture priority (since the shutter speed isn't too accurate).

Let's see, with a Grafmatic I can shoot over 1.0 fps... Which is faster than a brand new, super-duper PhaseOne P45+! And, I have *Twelve* Grafmatics already loaded with TMX and TMY.

Incidentally, the rangefinder is calibrated to the 135mm Graphex lens, but the shutter's flash contacts are dodgy at best. I can also slide the focusing scale on the bed a few tenths of an inch and use my 127mm lens & shutter instead. [And No, the lenses will NOT interchange in the shutters.] For flash shots, I use my Norman 200B set at half power (100 w/sec), for battery life.

Last March, I shot my cousin's Bar Mitzvah with it -- See: http://users.snip.net/~joe/austin/index.htm

very cool, thanks for sharing and thank you for the links on Burnett,

Faster than $30,000+ of new monster digital camera, and image quality could surely hold its own even in a huge print as well.

thanks Ray

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I can't believe how miserably I flunked the Gore-Unibomber Quiz. What an eye-opener!

That quiz, inspired by a column by Tony Snow, is at least seven years old; but I still keep it up as I still get replies like yours!

I use my 1969 Polaroid pack film camera at weddings. So much fun! People love having their pictures taken. Also, they assume that if something has a bellows it must be really expensive.

Great work!

all that and no shutter lag, congrats.

Well, almost no shutter lag per se: I removed the pneumatic shutter actuator, which is needed for flashbulbs...