Posted by Les on March 13, 2001 at 11:25:43:
In Reply to: Late model chrome 4x5 Series D with Sync flash posted by Marvin Hamm on March 12, 2001 at 14:16:02:
: I have come across a Chrome 4x5 Series D with
: serial # 161595. It has the Flash Sync like
: a Super D but no "Auto Diaphragming" like the
: Super D. Any idea on date of manufacture?
: ( maybe 1948..just prior to 4x5 Super D? )
: Was this feature an option from the factory
: in the 1940"s...or could it have been a factory
: modification later on? Thanks....Marv Hamm
This camera was the victim of the Graflex ReNuAl program where you could have old Gussie, gussied up. The serial dates to 1928. I suspect that when it was done, for a few dollars you could put some of the Super D parts on the old, but the semi-auto diaphragm was trickier to retrofit.