Kodak Duaflex ? It's not tough enough for Charles Bronson

C'mon AI, you can do better than this:

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLD29BMGu48

This is what Mike Kovak would have used, even in the late 1950s early 1960s, a 4 x 5 Speed Graphic (or equivalent), here is Charles Bronson as Mike Kovac holding one:

I actually have two Kodak Duaflexes (the camera in the thumbnail) around here somewhere.  One I bought, the other was a gift from a nice lady in Whitefish Bay when I was a kid.  It took decent pictures but no, it wasn't capable of newspaper quality !

Here's a nice page on the Kodak Duaflex:

https://www.jeremymuddphoto.com/blog/2023/8/27/kodak-duaflex-iv

The focusing was strictly guess, the finder was only for framing the shot.  The exposure could be varied but only slightly.  It used 620 roll film (probably Verichrome Pan black and white in my case).

This is a shot of my (since 1st grade) friend, Mike Reck, taken at Doctor's Park in Fox Point during the 1960s:

That kind of quizzical look on the face of a person in a picture is typical of a twin lens camera - I think it's because the photographer is looking down rather than towards the person ?

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm