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Extension Bellows For Speed Graphic
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SpeedGraphicMan



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:45 pm    Post subject: Extension Bellows For Speed Graphic Reply with quote

Hello All!

I was reading through "The Crown, Century and Speed Graphic Guide".
It mentioned therein that there were accessory extension bellows available for the Speed Graphic.

Is this true? Were there ever any extension bellows made for the Speed?
If so does anyone have one that they could post a pick of? I would like to see hoe it looks and works?

Thanks in advance!
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 10:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hey
I never herd of one & never seen one
as it would take an add on rail of some kind to work!!
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 10:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Neither
http://www.cameraeccentric.com/html/info/graflex_5.html
nor
http://www.cameraeccentric.com/html/info/graflex_4.html
mention an accessory extension bellows.

What reference manual do you have?
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Henry



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

How would you fit an extension bellows anyway? Maximum bellows travel is limited by the length of the front standard tracks. I don't see how you could make it longer without also extending the tracks somehow.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not to be a complete idiot, but if I had an extension bellows for a Graphic, how and where would I attach it?

My Graphics have all the bellows they can use without major rework.
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SpeedGraphicMan



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 9:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dan Fromm wrote:
Not to be a complete idiot, but if I had an extension bellows for a Graphic, how and where would I attach it?


I would assume that there would be something similar to a lensboard...

All I know is that the book I have says, "Lenses of a longer focal length (longer than the 15" tele optar) may be fitted to your Speed Graphic by means of an extension bellows... See your Graflex dealer for more information... Blah Blah Blah...
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 11:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Share the book's name etc. with us.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 11:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dan Fromm wrote:
Share the book's name etc. with us.

See my first post...
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 1:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A mug of your favorite brew to the first person (other than the OP and myself) to identify the source: "I would like to see Paris before I die... Philadelphia will do..."

N.B. Hint: nothing to do with Graphic/Graflex.
Hint #2: The Pride of Darby, PA.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 2:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What is the publication date? Does it have a parent company logo on it?
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 2:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Joe Cooper, Henry?
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 1:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mmm, no, Dan. Who's Joe Cooper? Did he play for the Phillies?
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 5:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Henry, that quotation is from the immortal W. C. Fields, who also said, "Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia."
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 8:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Right you are. Emphasis on the dual meaning of "living": "alive," and "dwelling." Often misquoted as "I would rather be in Philadelphia," which sort of makes sense in the context of an epitaph, but isn't as funny (or subtle) as the original. BTW, neither quotation is actually on Fields's tombstone.

Have a frosty mug of Molson's, or whatever you guys drink up there, on me!

P.S. Despite what many ignorant writers have said, W.C. did not hate Philadelphia. There are numerous references to the city, and to other Pennsylvania locales, in his films, all of them quite fond. One example of many, this one from "The Old-Fashioned Way": "When I was playing Mahony City, up in P...." He never finishes the sentence, but the reference is to Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, up in the coal regions. I drove through it just the other day. (Locals pronounce it "Mackanoy.")
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 10:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have an illustration from a 1963 Burke and James catalog, showing a Speed Graphic fitted with an extension rail and long-tele lens.

How can I post it here?


The W.C. Feilds quote is from the 1940 film "My Little Chickadee".
When a lynch mob is about to hang Feilds, they ask him for his last request...
He responds with, "Yes, I would like to see Paris before I die..."
When they begin to slip the noose about his neck he cries out, "Philadelphia will do!...
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