Graflex SLR vs Graphic film plane

[vaantique]

Can anyone with a Graflex SLR sheet holder measure or tell me what the distance from the frame of the holder to

the film surface is?

 

I'm trying to construct a back for my 4x5 R B series D out of a Polaroid pack film back from a Vivitar slide

printer and a piece of quality birch plywood. It wouldn't have a dark slide, but I could remove it in a changing

bag if I ever really need to remove it before the pack is used up.

[cabbiinc]

http://www.graflex.org/ You may ask this at Graflex.org. Those people know alot about Graflex cameras.

[arthur_gottschalk]

It's probably obvious to everyone but me, but I have to ask: Why?

[vaantique]

"It's probably obvious to everyone but me, but I have to ask: Why?"

 

To combine the SLR capabilities of a Graflex and the instant feedback of Polaroid, or should I say Fuji Instant now?

 

I also would love to use the 3000 speed black and white with it to take indoor portraits without any flash. Emulsion lifts would also be neat to make if the fuji 669 equivalent works well.

[brian_wallen]

Using an original Graflex holder, I make it about 6mm from the pan of the sheath to the wooden frame, that is done sighting along the frame to a ruler sitting on the sheath. I wonder if Weston would have been intrigued by this idea?

[profhlynnjones]

4x5 Graflex film plane dimension is different from all the rest of the 4x5 cameras by several thousandths of an inch, enough to put you well out of focus .

 

All the other LF films, 2.25x3.25 and 3.25x4.25 are exactly the same as for all other film plane locations, it is a wonder to me why they did that!

 

Lynn