Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jan, Nice images! I only shoot BW film in 120. For color I use digital. I like using Rolleiflexes because I like waist level viewing. I seem to compose better images on ground glass. Rollei's are quiet, solidly built, and they're attention grabbers (which can be good or bad, depending on the situation). Processing film is so much work I sometimes wonder why I bother. But each time I force myself to use it I discover some rewards. Down the road I may be thankful that I'm still mixing in some film shooting these days. If I stay away too long I lose touch with developing. Even one roll a month is enough to keep me up to speed on the details. I feel comfortable that film is archival. No special tools to look back through your own personal history. Just a light source and the ability to visualize inversely. Negs have their own special beauty. If you don't handle them now and then, it's easy to forget. I particularly like big negs. The bigger the better. I've always liked square format. I probably got hooked when I saw the first picture I ever took with my parent's Brownie Hawkeye. Speaking of which, I have handful of prints from that camera that are extremely meaningful, even to this day. Is it possible to take too many pictures, and thus dilute the value that fewer might have? Dave R -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+drodgers=casefarms.com at leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+drodgers=casefarms.com at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Jan Decher Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 7:58 PM To: lug at leica-users.org Subject: [Leica] Where the Rolleiflex shines... Dave, I feel just the same about Rolleiflex images. See some stuff on my Flickr pages: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mittelformat/sets/72157600205838879/ Still have to upload this summer's stuff from England and Germany. Are you on the Rollei Users Group? For me B&W is clearly all about 6x6 Rollei. With color negs & slides Leica brilliance wins. I use digital mostly for my (zoological) work and from a price-performance reasoning it will most likely be the new Canon 7D. Canon got a lot of things right with that one (finally a decent viewfinder & built in external flash slave control all at 18 MP!). Don't really need video in an SLR but it's nice for the occasional animal action sequence. Jan ====From: "David Rodgers" <drodgers at casefarms.com> ... Every time I use a Rolleiflex I mutter how "only 12 frames per roll" can be limiting." (No 220 for me!). Then I look at the results and wonder if it's just the opposite. There's a mysterious beauty in square BW negs that are just big enough you can appreciate the contact prints without the aid of a loupe. Not to mention enlargements, which shouldn't stand up to digital prints, but somehow do and then some. Maybe it's the level of effort it takes to get the end result that makes me appreciate them so. Either that or Leica doesn't have a monopoly on mystique :-). ... Dave R _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information