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leonardobarreto.com

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I want to post here because i looked a bit deserted, since my work relates to such places that I could define like this -- I have to be fast because my laundry is sitting downstairs dry and getting cold --: a place that has very definitive indication of human hand, but no human presence.

I started the series in japan in 1993 for about 3 years with a SPEED GRAPHIC and Velvia 4 x 5 transparency film. The work was exhibited in Fujifilm Professional Gallery in Ginza Tokyo and in 123 Watts Gallery in New York as one man shows ... and then I did other things.

Now I want to continue doing the series and want to buy me a new Speed Graphic (the other one that my father gave me literally fell apart and scattered in the wind (or my studio) and probably c-print neg.

I also have a P 25 and made a test with it (I don't want to do the series with the P 25 for the only reason that the back is too expensive and I want to use it just for work.

Any way. this is a link to this firs image...
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Greetings Leonardo.

Is a SPEED GRAPHIC required or will a CROWN GRAPHIC do?
 
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leonardobarreto.com

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I always get confused, I think that the one that I want is a crown. I'm sure I don't want the one with the shutter mechanism... hold it I will eBay serch it... yes --thank you for holding-- it is Crown Graphic, I guess I like the term "speed" in things. My father had an old car model 1750 "veloce" that translate something like that in italian (Alfa Romero).

I wonder if the Crown Graphic lost the "speed" name. I found a web site with everything you wanted to know about this cameras, but I don't have it on my bookmarks.

Do you have one of this?
 
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leonardobarreto.com

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Will, I noticed, after replying, that yo have a Graphic and a Pacemaker (another fantastic name for a camera, somehow I always convert it in my mind to Peacemaker, or: the warcamera)

It did't take me much to find the answer to my own --silly- question:

Focal Plane Shutter (Speed Graphic Only)

The name "Speed" in Speed Graphic comes from the 1/1000s shutter speed offered by its focal-plane shutter. The Graflex focal-plane shutter is the essence of simplicity -- a single long curtain of rubberized fabric with a number of slits....http://graflex.org/speed-graphic/features.html
 
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