Classic Speed Graphic 4x5 Camera 1 Mug

Classic Speed Graphic press camera. Takes 4"x5" sheet film. One of my favourite cameras in my collection, I set up this as an ode to press photographers of the past. The Speed Graphic was a press camera produced by Graflex in Rochester, New York. As a press camera, in the 1950s and 1960s, the iconic photo-journalists of the Washington Post and the former Washington Evening Star shot on Speed Graphics exclusively. The 1942-1953 Pulitzer Prizes for photography were taken with Speed Graphic cameras. Perhaps the most famous Speed Graphic user was New York City press photographer Arthur "Weegee" Fellig, who covered the city in the 1930s and 1940s "Speed" came from the maximum speed of 1/1000 sec. that could be achieved with the focal pl...