SPRAGG, MARK Where Rivers Change Direction. SAM SHAW Sophia Loren : in the camera eye. If you want a 2x3 system camera with useful movements and an RF that's good for multiple focal lengths get a Horseman.ALAN TITCHMARSH Avant-Gardening. If you want a 2x3 system camera with a rangefinder that's good with only one focal length, get a Graphic. If you want to shoot 2x3 with a camera that offers modest movements - more than the equivalent Graphic, but still modest - and can use only a normal lens, go for it. But and however, I use a normal lens with them more than any other. I like system cameras, i.e., cameras that can be used relatively easily with more than one focal length. Mine had a Hugo Meyer RF that was good for only one focal length, Ian may have been thinking of that one. OP, your Pressman has a Kalart rangefinder that can be adjusted - painfully, and not in the field - for a range of focal lengths. Busch made an insertion type roll holder that uses 120 film for the 2x3 Pressman. Another solution to the roll holder problem. I use them with my 2x3 Graphics, prefer them to Graflex roll holders. Jim10219 mentioned Adapt-A-Roll 620 roll holders. Ian didn't explain how he uses Graflex backs, but other users have reported swapping their 2x3 Pressmans' spring backs for 2x3 Graflex-made Graflok backs. The 2x3 Pressman is a nice little camera, in some ways nicer than the comparable Graphics (Century, 2x3 Crown), but apparently held down by small and hard to find lens boards and a spring back that makes using commonly available roll holders impossible. I've had a 2x3 Pressman, sold it and standardized on 2x3 Graphics. Or come up with some other way to smoothly squeeze all of the chemicals onto the film. That requires a small modification to the holder, and you have to put the film back into an Instax camera to develop them. Some people also shoot Instax Mini film in those sheet film holders. You can also cut down 4x5 film for it, if you want to use sheet film (roll film won’t lay flat and would be more difficult to use). The biggest issue with it, besides figuring out a way to use film with it, is finding lens boards for it. It’s a fun little camera to use, and the rangefinder and sports finder make it pretty useful 6x9 handheld camera. If you send your film out to be developed, ask them to send your take up spool back so you don’t have to keep buying them. If you develop your own film, it’s not a big deal. You can load regular 120 film into it, but you have to use a 620 as the take up spool. With the Adapt-a-Roll, you don’t need to make any modifications to the camera.
I use mine as a 6x9 camera and shoot 120 roll film with it using an Adapt-a-Roll 620. It’s called a Busch Pressman C, and they’re not that rare. Judging by the lens board, that’s probably not the original lens. I have one, though it has a different lens. Is there any information on lenses that are compatible? the lens is a 105mm f4.5 Voigtlander Anastigmat Skopar lens. can any roll film back be adapted to this camera? I’ve seen at least one mention that cutting up 120 film in 3.25 inch segments isn’t an option, as 120 is too wide. I see film holders on eBay, but I don’t know about compatibility. Unfortunately it didn’t have film holders, and availability of cut film seems almost nothing (Freestyle has Arista 100 and 400 and Ilford FP4+ and HP5+.) It seems to be a bit of a rarity, I don’t know that I need it, but it seems like it would be fun to play with, and they weren’t asking much for it. I played around with it and everything seemed to work, but I didn’t buy it because I didn’t know anything about this little thing. I was at a garage sale today, and there was a very good condition Busch Pressman 2.25x3.25 camera for sale. I know technically this isn’t “large format” but this seems more in keeping here than in the medium format section.
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