electronic flash for speed graphic 4 x 5

"charles ufford" <cufford.RemoveThis@surfbest.net> wrote in message
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 > hello,
 > I'm wondering what the brand of flash was used with the
4 x 5 speed graphics, and if
 > there is a place to check for them to be for sale.I know
that all of the regular flash
 > tubes have been cannibalized for star wars lightsaber
kits.
 > thanks,
 > charles
 >
The most popular strobes were the Graflex strobe and the
Heiland Strobonar strobe. Both had heads which fitted on the
standard flash gun.
Kodak Flash Supermatic shutters will synch strobe. They
have two sets of contacts. For strobe connect the unit to
the same flash connector used for flash bulbs but do not
cock the synchronizer.
All of the later Compur shutters used on Graphics have X
synch. Earlier Compurs can be modified for it.
Wollensak Rapax/Graphex shutters with flash synch have a
switch position for X synch. You can not use strobe with the
focal plane shutter of a Speed Graphic although you can on a
Super-D Graflex SLR.
There were a few very early strobe units, the Wilcox was
one, which had delay relays in them so that they could be
synchronized with flashbulb synchronizers. These are quite
rare. I suspect such a delay unit could be made easily.


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The Supermatic and other shutters found on the Pacemaker Graphics do have X
contact as described. However you'll need a bipost-3mm coax female adapter
cord.
I have a 150mm f4.5 Xenar on my '4x5 'Crown which has the 3mm contact so it
synch with my Metz 45CT-1.
My Graphic is clearly a 'user' camera.
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