Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 04/17/2001 8:56:19 PM, you wrote: <<A problem is you get people looking right at you. But The picture is of people looking up. YOU are above the camera a couple of feet. So when they make eye contact with YOU they are of course not looking at the camera.>> This was known as the "Rollei Look." In it's subtler variations, it occurred when a portrait subject would look into the top lens. The resulting photo would appear just a little off, as if the subject were gazing at the viewer's forehead. For years I though the "Rollei Look" referred to the fine quality of a Rollei image until some wiser head tarnished my golden image. How like them. Allen Zak