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Jon Grepstad has several good resources available. He seems to be devoted mainly to pinhole and large format photography.

His large format page has a link to buy a book to build your own large format camera. He also has some other good large format resources there. Someday I’ll get around to buying the book. I am very intrigued, but for now I have a perfectly good Graflex Super Graphic 4×5 camera and little time build lately.

He has a pinhole photograpy section that has several resources such as a long article on the history of pinhole photography. The one thing I would like to see is larger images.

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Graflex.org has information about Graflex cameras such as my Super Graphic as well as all the other Graflex models, such as the Anniversary and Crown graphics. The jewels of the site are the Technical Information, Speed Graphic FAQ, Articles, Cameras, and the Help Board. The Help Board is a useful discussion forum. Get familiar with your back button because there is a great amount of material on this site, but the navigation is a little lacking. Navigation issues aside, this site is worth many hours of study.
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I’m guilty of not using my Super Graphic enough. Nice camera, built like a tank, capable of very nice 4×5 work. And here it sits.

This digital age is supposed to give us more time for things, but here I sit at my computer with my Super Graphic at my side and I haven’t the time lately to use it.

When I first bought it, I had to repair the rotating back. Maybe an hour of my time for a lot of convenience. Simple repair on a simple camera. It’s no wonder that these were so prevalent in their day.

It’s about time to crack open the 4×5 film in my freezer and get back to work. It’s funny. Even though I don’t use this camera nearly enough and they seem absolutely impractical in this digital age, I find myself driven to go to ebay and buy more. I love my Graphic.

Super Grahic on eBay

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