Auto Graflex Graflex, 1916 version with bellows opening from behind. These cameras conventional press were made between 1906 and 1923. With a package holder with Kodak film, folding mirror focal plane shutter stuck. Bellow in good condition. The front lens shutter does not seem original, but it works. This model has folding bellows, which gives a higher value than the flat folded version. Auto Graflex was the Folmer & Schwing response to the problems that occurred with shutters complicated of the first Graflex cameras of the company. Auto Graflex had a"" New simplified focal plane shutter"" , a shutter curtain of fabric that was simple, reliable and fast, with speeds up to 1/1000 sec. Auto Graflex was an SLR single lens for 3¼ × 4¼ inch plates (quarter-iron) or sheets of film. In the 1910s the camera was still available, and also for larger formats. Graflex name can mean either: The main camera brand used by Folmer & Schwing and (after 1905) Folmer & Schwing the Kodak division. The company succeeded Folmer & Schwing when he had to be sold by Kodak in 1926. The Folmer & Schwing Mfg. Co. was founded in 1887 by William F. Folmer and Schwing William E. as a bicycle company in New York City. The first cameras appeared in his catalog of 1896. Mr. Folmer Graflex developed the first camera in 1898. The first of these cameras had a troubled and complicated focal plane shutter. In 1904 it was replaced by a shutter curtain cloth focal plane, simple, reliable and fast. From 1905 to 1926 the company was a division of Eastman Kodak in Rochester, New York. Then he became Folmer Graflex Corporation.
