
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 7:42 pm
Back in the heyday of Graflex, the company was a magnet for all sorts of amateur photographers with a novel idea, in hopes of making a buck.
I saw one letter to Graflex of a "novel format"
of 2 1/4 x 3 5/32 or 6cm x 8 cm. 40 years later fuji came up with the same idea and ran with it.
Another of these guys (and they were always guys) had an interesting idea for a small, hand holdable camera that used 120 film. He first went to Kodak, but they rejected him, then he came to Graflex. The engineers took a look at his prototype and saw that it was incredibly complicated. The marketing people were all for it, the engineers knew they just weren't capable of mass producing a camera with the tolerances needed to make this camera a sucess. In the end the engineers won. The guy finally did find a company to make it and they did have great difficulty in the begining.
His name: Victor Hasselblad.
So, under slightly different turn of events...a yes here or there...they could have been right, and you might have been shooting with a Crown Hasselblad.
