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Vintagephoto
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Location: Holland
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 Posted: Fri May 22, 2020 8:02 pm Post subject: New review for Graflex Pacemaker Crown |
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Hi Guys, greetings from Holland where i made for a vintage camera site a review of the lovely Pacemaker Crown. I hope it will contribute to more fans here for these LF cameras and Graflex particularly. If you have suggestions or see mistakes or gaps, please let us know!
https://vintage-photo.nl/graflex-pacemaker-crown-the-finest-xl-camera/
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hsandler
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Location: Ottawa, Canada
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| Posted: Sat May 23, 2020 3:08 am Post subject: |
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Nice article. I just noticed two things:
1. Typo « The lid opens open 90 degrees«
2. The article mentions telephoto lenses 300-500mm. The bellows does not extend far enough to focus most lenses beyond 300mm telephoto designs. |
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Vintagephoto
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| Posted: Sat May 23, 2020 9:42 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the reply, I changed the mistakes!
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Dan Fromm
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| Posted: Sat May 23, 2020 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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More problems:
| Quote: | | And a wide angle LF lens would be around 90mm or lower, but you have to put the bellows almost inside the camera to cover this broad area… |
The bed will have to be dropped. The 4x5 Crown's minimum extension is 52.4 mm. Lenses with flange-focal distances > 52.4 mm will focus to infinity on a 4x5 Crown. Because the Crown's inner and outer bed rails are linked, focusing lenses that make infinity with the standard on the inner rails is easy.
| Quote: | | The photo shows the original Graflex ’23’ back with which you can shoot twelve 6×9 photos on 120 medium format rolls |
Eight 2x3 (6x9 is a poor metric approximation to 2.25" x 3.25") shots, not twelve.
You wrote about a Crown with a top range finder. Earlier Crowns have a Kalart (usually) RF on the side or no RF at all. You should mention this. |
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Vintagephoto
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| Posted: Sun May 24, 2020 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Dan for the valuable suggestions, i ll correct them in the next update.
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