Graflex Graphics Speed Analogue camera

For sale Graflex Speed Graphic, an American optical-bench professional view camera with bellows, an icon of reportage photography and twentieth-century printing, ideal for collectors of historic cameras and enthusiasts of vintage large-format photography. The body presents a two-tone finish with a black leather back and a chrome-silver front panel, while the black cloth bellows are fully extended in the operating position with chrome-plated metal rails that ensure the typical movements of portable studio cameras.


on the front part the Graflex Raptar lens with chrome ring bearing the writings and the serial number, mounted on a front standard with adjustment mechanisms for focusing and perspective control, while the 'speed graphic' inscription is clearly legible on the chrome front panel. on the side part of the body there is the vertical inscription 'kalart synchronized range finder' that identifies the integrated rangefinder, a distinctive feature of the more advanced models of the Speed Graphic series used by professional photographers of the era.


In the upper part is mounted the chrome-plated, metal-framed sporting viewfinder, useful for quick framing in reportage situations, while on the cap the control and adjustment levers typical of professional Graflex cameras are visible. The cosmetic condition appears very good, with the usual patina of age on the chrome metalwork and on the back leather, without evident tears of the bellows or of the body that would compromise its use or its collectible value. This exemplar represents a historic piece of American professional photography, used for decades by photojournalists and commercial photographers, and it is ideal for anyone seeking complete and well-preserved large-format studio/view cameras to display or potentially use with large-format sheet film.