Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>The leica is such a transparent machine, in the >sense that you look *through* it at the world, that it often feels >unmediated. The rolleiflex is the opposite of this. The world is flipped >over, and shown in a naturally unstable frame (the square). I for one sometimes even want my Rollei to give vertical (as well as horizontal) mirror images. It makes me think over the composition in a way that normal "transparent" WYSIWYG images do not. If memory serves, HCB used this trick in teaching photography. I won't run after my kids with such TLRs. ;-) - -- Mikiro @ Strasbourg http://arbos.silva.net