R B Graflex camera, Series B

R B Graflex camera, Series B

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Single lens reflex camera for 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch plates. Ross Xpres lens f:5 1/2 inches, f/4.5-32, No. 87733. Fabric focal plate shutter with six tensions and four slit widths, speeds from 1/10 to 1/1000 second. Rack and pinion focusing, refelx mirror and screen with folding hood. Ground glass focusing screen in reveolving back. In fitted case, with one blockform double plate holder and one ditto cut film holder.

R B Graflex Camera, Series B, made by Folmer-Schwing Division of Eastman Kodak in the United States, from 1924.

Ross Xpres lens f:5 1/2 inches, f/4.5-32, No. 87733. Fabric focal plate shutter with six tensions and four slit widths, speeds from 1/10 to 1/1000 second. Rack and pinion focusing, refelx mirror and screen with folding hood. Ground glass focusing screen in reveolving back. In fitted case, with one blockform double plate holder and one ditto cut film holder.

'R B' stands for 'revolving back', meaning the camera could take either portrait or landscape pictures, simply by revolving the sheet film holder in the back of the camera. To buy the camera with an Anastigmat lens cost $91 in the 1920s.

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Category:
Photographic Technology
Collection:
Kodak Collection
Object Number:
1990-5036/4242
type:
single lens reflex camera and plate camera
credit:
The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford

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R B Graflex Camera, Series B

R B Graflex Camera, Series B

Single lens reflex camera for 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch plates. Ross Xpres lens f:5 1/2 inches, f/4.5-32, No. 87733. Fabric focal plate shutter with six tensions and four slit widths, speeds from 1/10 to 1/1000 second. Rack and pinion focusing, refelx mirror and screen with folding hood. Ground glass focusing screen in reveolving back.

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R B Graflex Camera, Series B, made by Folmer-Schwing Division of Eastman Kodak in the United States, from 1924.

Ross Xpres lens f:5 1/2 inches, f/4.5-32, No. 87733. Fabric focal plate shutter with six tensions and four slit widths, speeds from 1/10 to 1/1000 second. Rack and pinion focusing, refelx mirror and screen with folding hood. Ground glass focusing screen in reveolving back.

'R B' stands for 'revolving back', meaning the camera could take either portrait or landscape pictures, simply by revolving the sheet film holder in the back of the camera. To buy the camera with an Anastigmat lens cost $91 in the 1920s.

Object Number:
1990-5036/4242/1
type:
single lens reflex camera and plate camera
Case and Accessories for R B Graflex Camera

Case and Accessories for R B Graflex Camera

Fitted case containing one blockform double plate holder, one ditto cut film holder, and one black slide-on case, for R B Graflex series B camera.

Measurements:
overall: 183 mm x 220 mm x 155 mm,
Object Number:
1990-5036/4242/2
type:
camera case and accessories