Editing Graflex (section)

===Graflex Reflex cameras===
[[File:Folmer-Schwing-banquet-camera-1914.jpg|right|thumb|190px|1914 ad for the Folmer and Schwing "Banquet Camera"]]

The first of the Graflex-branded cameras, released in 1898, was the Graflex camera, also known as the Graflex Reflex, or Graflex single lens reflex (SLR). This camera used the same [[History of the single-lens reflex camera|swinging-mirror, through-the-lens viewing mechanism]] as modern [[single lens reflex camera]]s, introduced many decades later, and quickly became popular for [[sports]] and [[News media|press]] [[photography]] in the early 20th century due largely to its use of a [[focal plane shutter]]. To produce [[shutter speed]]s fast enough to appear to freeze rapid motion, early Graflex cameras employed a cloth shutter with a narrow slit that quickly moved across the film plane, exposing only one small strip at any given moment in its travel. To set the shutter speed, the photographer wound the shutter spring to one of a series of calculated tensions using a key, and selected the slit width with another control. A table on the side of the box gave the shutter speed for each combination.  The Graflex Reflex was also popular among early 20th Century fine art photographers, leading several lens manufacturers to design special soft-focus lenses, including the famous [[Wollensak]]'s Verito, to support the camera's creative potential.
[[File:5x7 Press Graflex camera, produced by the Folmer & Schwing Division of Eastman Kodak Co. held by Germany Schaefer, Washington Senators April 1911 LOC 2162646403 (cropped).jpg|left|thumb|5x7 Press Graflex camera in 1911]]