Finally finished restoring my Anniversary Speed Graphic. Stripped the leather, removed and polished all the metal (with the exception of the shutter mechanism, since that was still functioning), removed and replaced the bellows with NOS bellows I found cheap on eBay, cleaned, sanded, varnished, and waxed the wood, painted the metal cover and allowed the brass rivets to show through (you can’t see it in this picture), repainted the rangefinder cover black to match the rest of the hardware, and recalibrated the rangefinder (though only for close distances, I could not get it correct for both close distances and infinity, and I use it mainly for portraits). Now she is a thing of beauty. I love the look of the brass on mahogany along with the brassing on the black metal. #largeformat #speedgraphic #camerarestoration #restoration #graflex #graflexspeedgraphic #filmphotography #film #filmisnotdead #filmcamera #4x5film #4x5camera