Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wow - the street photos are fantastic. Do you think you could have pulled it off with a Hasselblad? I am guessing that the silence of the 3.5 shutter, without the mirror clunk, made this possible. I've fallen under the spell of big negatives lately too, and am exploring the larger format folding cameras. The difference in negative size is the first big "WOW!". I haven't done big enlargements yet to compare sharpness and detail, but soon. Excellent work! Vick Johnny Deadman wrote: > Since people seem to be interested in the Rolleiflex debate, here are some > images I took a couple of months ago with my very battered old 3.5. I think > they're quite different from what I'd have done with a leica. In particular, > the square format changes the compositional game completely... I always feel > when composing for the square that I'm a ballerina on tiptoes, so to speak. > > I have put them on Zing but for those of you who don't get on with that > site... > > http://www.zing.com/album/?id=4292845991 > > ... there is also a mirror on pinkheadedbug. > > http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/images/almostwhitexmas > > Also the first image and several of the others demonstrate that surprisingly > for a tessar the bokeh of the 3.5 lens is really very nice. These were shot > wide open but the sharpness (at the centre at least) is excellent. > > Also many of you will already have seen these but the Rolleiflex is also a > wonderful camera for street photography. A week before I shot the above I > went out for a day on Oxford Street with a Rollei, some color print film and > a strobe and shot the following, which even surprised me. > > http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/htrevisited/index.html > > NB I have crossposted this to Streetphoto as > > (a) some of the images were indisputably taken on streets and > > (b) Bee Flowers (the Muscovite Bernard from this list... oops, sorry, did I > blow your cover?) wanted to know if I had actually taken any pictures in the > last decade. Answer: a few. I know he'll hate the landscapes, but hey. > > -- > Johnny Deadman > > http://www.pinkheadedbug.com