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The '''Auto Graflex''' was [[Folmer & Schwing]]'s answer on problems that occurred with the complicated shutters of the company's earliest [[Graflex]] cameras. The Auto Graflex had a "New Simplified [[Focal plane shutter|Focal Plane Shutter]]", a cloth curtain shutter that was simple, reliable and fast, with speeds up to 1/1000 sec. . The Auto Graflex was a [[SLR|single lens reflex]] camera for 3¼ × 4¼ inch plates ([[Plate Sizes|quarter-plates]]) or film sheets. | The '''Auto Graflex''' was [[Folmer & Schwing]]'s answer on problems that occurred with the complicated shutters of the company's earliest [[Graflex]] cameras. The Auto Graflex had a "New Simplified [[Focal plane shutter|Focal Plane Shutter]]", a cloth curtain shutter that was simple, reliable and fast, with speeds up to 1/1000 sec. . The Auto Graflex was a [[SLR|single lens reflex]] camera for 3¼ × 4¼ inch plates ([[Plate Sizes|quarter-plates]]) or film sheets. | ||
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source: ad in [[The Photo Miniature]], Nov. 1905 | source: ad in [[The Photo Miniature]], Nov. 1905 | ||
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The Auto Graflex was Folmer & Schwing's answer on problems that occurred with the complicated shutters of the company's earliest Graflex cameras. The Auto Graflex had a "New Simplified Focal Plane Shutter", a cloth curtain shutter that was simple, reliable and fast, with speeds up to 1/1000 sec. . The Auto Graflex was a single lens reflex camera for 3¼ × 4¼ inch plates (quarter-plates) or film sheets.
In the 1910s the camera was still available, and also for larger format.
source: ad in The Photo Miniature, Nov. 1905
