Graphic Ringside Camera

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The Graphic Ringside Camera is a specialist camera for sports (especially boxing) photographers, made to special order by Folmer Graflex in the 1930s. It is rigid-bodied (that is, it has no bellows, and does not fold), and has only the focal-plane shutter. It has a focusing screen at the rear, and focusing is by a helical ring on the lens. There is also a 'sports-finder'. It is essentially a latter-day Ermanox, but for 4x5-inch film in double dark-slides.

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• Ringside Camera dated to about 1937, with 12.5cm f/2 Xenon, serial no.48084, sold by Christie's in May 2006. The auctioneer's notes quote a Graflex employee in saying that the cameras were often made with a lens supplied by the customer; this Xenon is from the 1920s, to judge by its serial number.