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Colman got my dad's old Rolleiflex (looks like the Seagull above) out this morning and loaded some film into it...might take some photos with it tomorrow...

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde
by Sam on Sat Feb 16th, 2008 at 04:51:04 PM EST
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I hope it'll go  well :-)
The rolleiflex was/is a great camera and I can even recall myself that most photographers used it for press, mariages, etc.! You could get gorgeous negatives :-)

So much for the incessant change of lenses or zooming that we do today, as those were with a fixed lens (on one model though, you could change the dual lens for another set)!
It's the Vietnam war that brought in many people's mind the multi-purposedness of the SLR or "single" lens reflex with changeable lenses...

So we'll get to see them next Friday ? :-)

"What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman

by margouillat (hemidactylus(dot)frenatus(at)wanadoo(dot)fr) on Sun Feb 17th, 2008 at 05:03:25 AM EST
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