Graflex Speed Graphic 4X5 camera with 150mm F2.8 MC lens aero ektar alternative

Description

Graflex Speed Graphic 4X5 camera with 150mm F2.8 MC lens (aero ektar alt.)
This Graflex camera is one of the lightest and most compact 4X5 cameras, but offers excellent  stability, ease of use and reliability over time. The Speed Graphic can also carry most small/medium-size lenses inside the closed camera body, making this an ideal large format backpacking tool, and very fast/easy to set up. Entire kit, with lens, weighs under 8LBS.
The Speed graphic features a built in curtain shutter, for use with any "barrel" lenses or other shutterless lenses.
This kit is built around the exceptionally sharp, multicoated Rollei Heidosmat 150mm fixed F2.8 lens and makes a superb hand held, low light, indoor or street portrait machine. It is an ideal alternative to the huge and heavy Kodak Aero Ektar setups, and a fraction of the cost of the Schneider Xenotar lens.
Due to its super bright and wide fixed F2.8 aperture this lens offers amazing shallow depth of field and focus control.
This lens is so small and light, it even fits inside the closed camera. This camera is fitted with a bright fresnel screen making the ground glass image amazingly bright.
This camera is compatible with all conventional 4X5 film holders, all polaroid backs and all roll film backs that slide under the glass.
Any other lens mounted on a standard Graflex lensboard can be used with this camera.
Includes
:
Speed Graphic 4X5
Rollei Heidosmat 150mm F2.8 MC lens
Three 4X5 film holders (used, tested light-tight)
Fresh, sealed box of CatLABS X FILM 80 B/W 4X5 sheet film (25 sheets)
Camera Features
:
Built in folding viewing hood
Built in focal plane shutter
Extremely rigid and stable
Front movements include rise, shift, and tilt
Lens can be left mounted inside when folded
Bright fesnel/ground glass combo
Camera Condition
:
This camera is
used, tested, and working as it should
Cosmetically, this camera shows very light and minor
signs of use
Focal plane shutter fires nicely on all speeds
Bellows are tested light-tight (though appear to have been patched in one small corner internally)
Rangefinder patch is good and has been calibrated for the 150mm focal length
All camera movements, knobs, gears, and latches are in good working condition
Spring back is tight and works as it should
Ground glass is clean and bright
Rollei Heidosmat 150mm F2.8:
150mm is a normal-angle of view lens on 4X5 cameras (similar to a 50mm lens on 35mm cameras)
Modern, multicoated lens
Fixed F2.8 - NO APERTURE CONTOL - F2.8 ONLY
Lens glass is clean with no scratches, haze, or fungus
Ask us about combining this purchase with any of our other large format lenses or film holders.