{"id":386,"date":"2009-06-27T04:02:45","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T04:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/?p=386"},"modified":"2012-05-06T10:22:52","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T15:22:52","slug":"my-ansco-speedex-special-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/my-ansco-speedex-special-r\/","title":{"rendered":"My Ansco Speedex Special &#8220;R&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally found my Ansco Speedex Special &#8220;R&#8221;.  I was wondering where it was.  We moved a few times and I was trying to find that box.  It was under my nose all the time sitting in a box of parts in my office closet.<\/p>\n<p>Now I have to find some time to get this thing going.  This was from a house fire my brother worked on.  Anyway, he gave it to me, but it&#8217;s covered with smoke.  I could send it out for repair and spend some money (more than it&#8217;s worth) or I could bite the time bullet and do some repair.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;ll be doing the restoration myself.  Here&#8217;s a good website for information about the Ansco and Agfa cameras.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ph.utexas.edu\/~yue\/misc\/AnscAgfa.html#SpeedexR\" target=\"_blank\">Agfa and Ansco Medium Format Folders, a practical view<\/a>  I wish <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cameraleather.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">CameraLeather.com<\/a> had pre-cut leather for this.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at what someone can do with these medium format folders at  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.certo6.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Agfa and Ansco Medium Format Folders, a practical view www.certo6.com <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are his ebay auctions.  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?ff3=4&#038;pub=5574782379&#038;toolid=10001&#038;campid=5336191249&#038;customid=&#038;mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fshop.ebay.com%2Fmerchant%2Fcerto6_W0QQ_nkwZQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZ\">Jurgen&#8217;s Vintage Folders on Ebay<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"text-decoration:none;border:0;padding:0;margin:0;\" src=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/roverimp\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?ff3=4&#038;pub=5574782379&#038;toolid=10001&#038;campid=5336191249&#038;customid=&#038;mpt=[CACHEBUSTER]\"><\/p>\n<p>Here are <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?ff3=4&#038;pub=5574782379&#038;toolid=10001&#038;campid=5336191249&#038;customid=&#038;mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fphotography.shop.ebay.com%2Fitems%2FFolding__camera%3F_trkparms%3D65%25253A12%25257C66%25253A2%25257C39%25253A1%25257C72%25253A1234%26_catref%3D1%26_sacat%3D11717%26_trksid%3Dp3286.c0.m14%26_sop%3D1%26_sc%3D1\">All Vintage Folders on Ebay<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"text-decoration:none;border:0;padding:0;margin:0;\" src=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/roverimp\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?ff3=4&#038;pub=5574782379&#038;toolid=10001&#038;campid=5336191249&#038;customid=&#038;mpt=[CACHEBUSTER]\"><\/p>\n<p>Anyone know of a good bellows makers for these?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally found my Ansco Speedex Special &#8220;R&#8221;. I was wondering where it was. We moved a few times and I was trying to find that box. It was under my nose all the time sitting in a box of parts in my office closet. Now I have to find some time to get this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17,47,48,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera-collecting","category-classic-cameras","category-folding-cameras","category-medium-format","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1665,"href":"http:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/1665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}