Manuals for Graflex Cameras & Accessories.
Please note that not all these on-iine manuals are of the best quality. Some fine details may not be legible. For quality original manuals or reprints, please visit Craig Camera and buy them. It does help to support those who support our hobbies!
| These original scans provided by Harry Martin |
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Pacemaker (1.1 meg) (older manual and may not be complete? see below). |
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Grafmatic (612K) instruction manual. |
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Pacemaker service manual (6.5 meg), complete 40 pages for top mounted rangefinder cameras. |
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4266 handi case page in gif format (37K) |
| New Additions: If not stated otherwise, then by me. |
| Grafic View II Instruction Manual scanned at 300dpi in B&W (380K), any better and it got huge... |
| Top Rangefinder Pacemaker manual in PDF format (1.1megs). This is the complete user manual from 1968 (I believe), all 30 pages. The above 'Pacemaker' manual is an older version and does not have much of the info contained in this manual. |
| Super Graphic Cams. A jpeg scan of my Super cams. Includes 90, 135, 250, 15", 210 and 150. The 210 and 150 may not be 100% to scale. The 150 was apparently home made (sent to me by someone else). If you'd like to add a scan of different cams, make a scan similar to mine (300dpi with ruler) and e-mail it to me. |
| Super Graphic Infinity Target This PDF file will print a page that can be used to set the infinity of the Super's rangefinder. Use at your own risk! And read the service manual! I suggest searching graflex.org for the excellent post by 45PSS about setting the Super infinity called "Super/ Super Speed Rangefinder Calibration" posted on 3-22-07. |
| Pacemaker Kalart Infinity Target This PDF file will print a page that can be used to set the infinity of the Pacemaker's Kalart rangefinder. Use at your own risk! And read the service manual! I suggest searching graflex.org for the excellent post by 45PSS about setting the Super infinity called "Super/ Super Speed Rangefinder Calibration" posted on 3-22-07. |
| 4x5 Graflarger enlarger back. the only documentation I know for this. In gif format, 1 page (189K). |
| Graphic View I & II Service Manual complete in PDF format. (1.9megs) Some great info here on the cameras and Grafloc backs! |
| Graflex Top Rangefinder Service Manual for the Pacemaker Crown/Speeds in PDF format (522K). |
| Graphex Shutter Service Manual for type 1,2 and 3 shutters in PDF format (1.4megs) |
| Graflex Strob 500 and Globe Strob Electronic Flash service manual in PDF format (640K) |
| Anniversary Speed Instruction Manual complete in PDF format (4 megs). Not a great scan but readable. Best I can do until somone comes up with better scans or an original manual... |
| Grafmatic 45 Service Manual (3.8 megs) Nice copy of the service manual complete with blow-ups of the parts. Courtesy of Charles Monday! |
| Grafmatic 23 Service Manual (3.1 megs) Nice copy of the service manual complete with blow-ups of the parts. Courtesy of Charles Monday! |
| The original 1931 Century Universal Patent in PDF format (640K) |
| Graflex Enlarg-Or-Printer manual in PDF format (864K). What a treat. This enlarger/contact printer is a true wonder. Made from approx. 1936 to 1942, it could do everything but make your morning coffee. And it could probably do that if you installed a larger bulb ;-) |
| Polaroid 545 PRO holder manual and technical flyer in PDF format. 19 pages, the complete manual I finally received from Polaroid. Impossible to find anywhere else (2.9megs)... |
| Adapt-A-Roll roll film adapter. Uses 620 spools! But works good. Here's the small instruction sheet in PDF format (894K) provided by Marty Magid. |
| And to fill things out, the Calumet/Cambo C2N 4x5/120 roll film holder, pdf 55K |
| The Graphic View Patents. There are three patent numbers on the front of the GVII. All three relate to the GVI and are available here:
Pat.# 2257081 GVI 1941 (PDF 1.1megs) Pat# 2301921 GVI 1942 (PDF 836K) Pat# 2500058 GV Spring Back 1950 (PDF 588K) If anyone finds a true patent number for the GVII, please let me know! (or the Graflok back for that matter). |
| Fotar 8x10 10x10 vertical and horizontal enlarger installation instructions in PDF format (178K). 5 pages of concise instructions and diagrams, especially for the cables... |
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Some other interesting downloads ;-) |
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The South Bristol Views Bellows Extension Calculator
A PDF file that you print out and cut into two pieces. Place the "target" on your subject, then measure it's size with the "ruler" on your ground glass. See the Close-Up page for a full description. |
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Here's an old time treat. Back when I was young, a great photography magazine published this "Exposure calculator" by S.P. Martin. It uses a 'slide' inside the folded paper sleeve to determine the proper exposure for a long list of described situations. I got a lot of use out of this years ago. I recently found the old one and thought I would share it with those who might remember it, or never have seen it... I did do a web search and could find no other reference to this 'device'. I created an Adobe 'PDF' format file that will print the calculator out. All you have to do is cut along the lines, fold the two sides and place the 'slide' inside. Click in the pic at left or here for the Jiffy Calculator. |
All the above manual (except the handicase) are provided in Adobe PDF format and need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view/print.
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These manuals are also not sized correctly, most being about 32x30 inches. However, they view just fine and the Adobe Reader has a feature to "Size to page" when printing. This will print the documents correctly... I may do a new set with the correct page size, but maybe not for the reason shown below... And... To reduce the overall size (originals are over 30 megs), I converted everything to B&W (2 bit). Pictures became dithered instead of color, which reduces their quality. Viewing or printing these pages should be more than adequate. If you want or need the original high quality scans, the owner of graflex.org will be reproducing these manuals in all their fine detail very soon. Thanks go to Harry for all his original hard work in producing these images! Harry's original scans can be found on his new web site (versus his 'old' site which is a long story...) at http://hmartin.mysitespace.com/ along with some really nice photos and other info...
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