Posted by Tony Brent on August 14, 2000 at 22:10:55:
In Reply to: Graflex Super D RB Shutter/Flash posted by Arthur Gottschalk on August 14, 2000 at 19:47:36:
I don't have any ideas on the shutter speed, other than to suggest some more tests at infinity instead of with bellows extended. Try the "Sunny Sixteen" rule -- f/16 @ 1/ASA
You won't be able to use a strobe with the Graflex. The flash connector is triggered by a metal contact just ahead of the leading edge of the curtain slit, but the shutter is a single curtain type and does not pause at a wide open point. It keeps moving, and the strobe would freeze and cut off part of the image. You will need to either use long peak focal plane type flash bulbs, or use open flash techniques at the "T" position of the shutter and close it manually after the flash fires. Paramount sync cords has a bi-pin Graflex sync cord.