This activity could be interesting. It is expensive! To avoid the latter I started fifty years ago collecting affordable vintage cameras with historical background like this one compared its size n construction to the 35mm press photographer camera.
To day I found the prices have shot up mainly bcoz of exchange rate increase.
At 85yrs old I take them out to exhibit n talk sbout some of these vintage interesting cameras.
With its f4.5 n 90mm lens the Speed Graphic could serve me as a portrait camera but its film size not available unless I cut from a 4×5 sheet film. Tedious!
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