Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I always carry my M6 outfit with me, and many of my PAWs this year were taken on the way to and from work, during lunch breaks and in other unplanned circumstances. But sometimes even an M6 is too much camera, and for those occasions I have until now used a Ricoh GR1, a truly pocketable, good quality point & shoot. However, I always found it annoying to deal with the shutter lag (which seems an eternity compared to a Leica M) and also I find that the 28mm is not my ideal all-purpose focal length (on the M6, I use the 35mm more often than any other lens). So, a couple of weeks ago I bought a Rollei 35S on ebay for $170. It is fully manual, has a very nice 2.8/40mm lens made by Rollei under license from Carl Zeiss, and is almost as pocketable as the Ricoh. It does not have a coupled rangefinder, one has to estimate the distance, but in practice this is not too hard. So, this week's shots come from my test roll with the little Rollei, shot on Agfa Scala. I hope the LUG forgives the non-Leica content... First, Wednesday I was in London for a full day of meetings, but I did manage a few snaps, among them this one of children singing carols in a tube station: http://www.wajsman.com/51.jpg The two alternates are both from around my office in Zurich, showing the winter that finally arrived: http://www.wajsman.com/51alt1.jpg http://www.wajsman.com/51alt2.jpg I especially like the performance of the Rollei's lens on the second shot, the sun is in the picture but the flare still well controlled (any "glow" that may be visible is more an artifact of scanning Agfa Scala and is not visible on the original slide). The main PAW index is at: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw.htm and comments and critique are always welcome and appreciated. Nathan - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html