Little Bertha (4 x 5; modified RB Graflex Super D)

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Graflex, Inc.
NATIONALITY: American
PLACE MANUFACTURED: US, NY, Rochester
INTRODUCTION DATE: ca. 1941
PRODUCTION DATES: m
FILM TYPE: sheet, etc
IMAGE SIZE: 4x5
SERIAL NUMBER RANGE: built around 4x5 RB D camera body
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: reflex
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: 20"and 28" aerial lenses
INTEGRATED SHUTTER: Yes

NOTES:
  "Built around 4x5 Super D body with front box replaced by lens cone
  riding on rigid bed supporting camera body and lens. With better
  emulsions and 4x5 enlargers, the 5x7 was outmoded and cumbersome. Like
  the last of the Big Berthas, the 4x5 size was customized by people
  other than Graflex. Same general design of 5x7 Big Bertha."
  (T. Holden, 1999).

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: G7367.00011
VIDEODISC 1, FRAME NUMBER: 131
BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: George Eastman House Information File - Technology Collection.//