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Gordon Cooper · Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Posts: 4 Location: Bremerton, WA

Did the Signal Corps or the Navy issue a tech manual about using the Speed? And if so, where can I get one?

Thanks

Gordon Cooper
Bremerton, WA

willysmb · Joined: 28 Feb 2004 Posts: 128 Location: France _ Europe

Hello,
For US WW2 Signal Corps , TM was :
TM 11-2352 , CAMERA EQUIPMENT PH-104 (Speed Graphic)
TM 11-2351, EXPOSURE METERS PH-77, PH-77-A, PH-77-C, & PH 252-A (exposure meters)

You can find here the a cover scan for TM 11-2352 : http://perso.orange.fr/willysmb/PH-104/nomenclature_104_FR.htm
and here a cover scan for T 11-2351: http://perso.orange.fr/willysmb/equipment_Cellules2_.htm

Laurent

Woodyspeed · Joined: 10 Mar 2009 Posts: 8 Location: Washington

Gordan:

The U S Navy Photographer's Mate manuals from pre 1970's era give very good information on the use of the the Speed/Crown Graflex cameras. These cameras were afterall the mainline camera of the time for Navy photographers. I was one 1965~1970.

BTW, I am in Port Orchard
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glennfromwy · Joined: 29 Nov 2001 Posts: 903 Location: S.W. Wyoming

If you get the Navy manual, be sure you get volume 1. Volume 2 covers aerial and motion picture cameras.
If you can find one from just after the war period, it might cover more ground. For example coverage of the older Anniversary models as well as the Pacemaker series. I'm not sure, but it would be worth looking into.
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"Wyoming - Where everybody is somebody else's weirdo"