Graflex Speed Graphic operations User manual

Open the camera by pressing the concealed spring at the top;
swing the bed down until the spring-actuated side arms lock the bed in
extended position. Grasp the front standard clamp and draw the lens
standard out to the ‘‘infinity stop” fastened on the bed track.

FOCUSING When the lens is set at the ‘‘infinity stop’’ the white

line on the focusing pointer, attached to the base of the
lens standard, should be in line with the 100-foot mark on the gradu-
ated focusing scale on bed of camera. When focusing upon objects
nearer than 100 feet, the lens is advanced into focus, by means of the
focusing button N, to a point on the focusing scale representing the
distance from the camera to the point focused upon.

THE FOCUSING The spring actuated Focusing Panel L is pro-
PANEL vided with side shields to facilitate focusing upon

the Ground Glass Screen. This panel recedes
to accept the Graphic Plate Holder or Premo Film Pack Adapter.
When the Plate Holder or Film Pack Adapter is withdrawn from the
camera, and the curtain aperture O (open) is registered at F, accurate
focus of the full negative size image can be obtained by varying the
position of the lens with the focusing button N.

The adjustable Rising and Falling Front, on the lens standard,
affords means for vertical centering of the composition with the expo-

sure aperture.