Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I can only hope that I can write such a beautiful ode to my wife in 2053. Op 23-sep-06, om 00:14 heeft Ted Grant het volgende geschreven: > Jeffery Smith asked: > >> Ted, inasmuch as you were shooting during the golden age of >> Rolleiflex, did you ever use one on a regular basis? Most of the >> folks on the Rollei Users Group seem to have an instinctive >> attraction to the venerable TLR, but I've never heard the word >> "Rolleiflex" uttered in any of your LUG posts. > > Hi Jeffery, > Actually my very first newspaper picture that launched me into this > wild wild life of photojournalism was a Rollieflex! :-) Not a > Leica!:-) The Leica cost too much for a guy earning $50.00 dollars > a week and married! :-) I bought a Rollicord, had it for 28 days > and knew without question because I didn't have a Rollieflex, I > wasn't taking the best pictures possible! :-) And because Fritz > Henle, a California photographer of some note in those days used a > Rollieflex and he was terrific, I had to have one. :-) > > This of course had absolutely nothing to do with computers and > internet....1951 photo magazines and LIFE! > > I traded the Rolliecord in looking as good a condition as it did > the day I took it out of the store and the caring dealer? gave me > 50% of what it cost and I bought the Rollieflex 3.5 Tessar, $310.00 > and away I went! > > I shot 120 Super XX film most of the time and souped in the sun > porch with the heavy blankets off our bed nailed over the windows > after sunset.:-) Now that's an experience in itself. :-) > > Trust me a very young "she who must be obeyed" who at the time > didn't know how to put the fear of loosing my life in her words, > thought it was wonderful and I'd surely become a great > photographer! Young brides are like that! :-) > > Today ? She just says... "yer not buying one of those M8's whether > you like it or not! :-) Older brides are like that! ;-) Well after > 57 years next month she knows how to put the fear of the Almighty > in me with just a look! ;-) > > So Jeffery the Rollieflex did play an important part in my career > development. I have very few of the negatives due to lost in home > moves and the rest are in the National Archives of Canada Ted Grant > collection. > > A point of interest on the Rollie, we had to always have two of > them because the magazines wanted both colour and B&W on all the > stories we shot. That was life in the good old days.:-) Computer? > Digital?What? > > Most of the guys and gals today have absolutely no idea how lucky > they are in this beautiful world of photography! My very good > fortune in my 78th year is...." I'm still doing it with as much, if > not more passion in 1950 when my beautiful wife of 8 months gave me > my first camera! Which I still have!:-) Argus A2 35mm! > > And the very neat part? I still have her! :-) Gotta love that > girl! :-) > > ted > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >