Graflex SLR

[kodaker]

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I bought this last week at an antique show in Florida. This is a 3/14 x 4 1/4 model. Looking online I can't seem to find another one that has the hole on the right side like this one has. See the hex shape above the focusing knob. There is also a clip like thing on the other side inside, so I figure something long and round fit in there all the way across above the bellows. Too early for a flash? Any ideas?

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Had one like your's at one time but I don't think it had that hole up front. Wouldn't be a flash. It might not have been for something that went all the way through the camera. The holes on both sides might have been for some sort of exterior bracket.

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[kodaker]

Attachment DeletedTurns out it is someone's home made version of flash sync. I took the camera front off to see what it looked like inside and saw that someone had made this. Apparently a 5 inch 2 conductor rod is inserted that makes one contact on one side and another on the other side. Both sides have wires that go on inside the camera to, I guess, a switch that's made somehow by the shutter. I have been in contact with Bruce Thomas in Australia who has a Graflex web site and he agrees that is is a flashbulb sync device.