I had been looking for one of these for awhile because I had the appropriate film holders, but not a camera they would fit. Then I found this one on eBay.



My first experience proved that the folds of the bellows were windows to the world (first photo below), so I had to give the bellows some special treatment to close up the various pinholes all over.

Then it was back to the tripod, where I shot each of the next three photos at about 5sec at f/22 using cut-down Fomapan 100, tray developed. I used an old Brownie rangefinder to check my distance to focus by scale.


The lens is a Rapid Rectilinear of about 105mm fl, and a typical Kodak Ball Bearing shutter (25 B T 50). The filmholders have sheaths for 2.25 x 3.25" cut film, just under 6x9. The camera actually has a removeable ground glass, although the f/8 of the lens makes it useless without a dark cloth. The focuser is continuous to about 7 ft.

These subjects suit the RR lens well--you can't really tell that much about the corners, for example, where the RR is known to be mushy. So the chair photo would actually enlarge to 8x10 looking pretty good, I expect. I'll try again and back off a bit so I don't cut off the corner as you see here. Moving subjects call for full sunlight for any chance of a decent photo!