[Leica] The final gasp of MF film?

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

I would never sell my Rolleiflex. Its an old friend. Someday I'll be in a
full circle mode and start with it and scanning again. I hope by then film
does not cost twenty five dollars a roll.
Oh by the way its a Rolleiflex TLR f2.8 F Type 2
It shoots 220 as well as 120. It was made in June 1971. I got it in 1977.
That's 35 years ago.

I shot this with it early on.
http://rabinergroup.com/ImagePages/CameraworkRudy.html
I used it in jobs in the 90's even though I of course had an 80mm planar for
my Hasselblads. Though when I got a Planar T* 3.5/100 Cfi  that kind of took
over till digital hit a year or two later.

-- 
Mark Rabiner


> From: Paul Roark <roark.paul at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:11:42 -0800
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] The final gasp of MF film?
> 
> It's interesting how long this thread is.  That says something in itself.
> 
> The recent "Sunburst" image I put on my website
> (http://www.paulroark.com/) is a Tech Pan, Bronica RF645 shot.  For
> shots like this that take extreme dynamic range (even though Sunburst
> was itself a 2-exposure combo), I'm not sure digital can compete yet.
> Overall, the Tech Pan frames hold up very well to the M9.  I suspect
> my Nikon 8000 is the limiting factor.
> 
> On the other hand, I recently had an order that I'm now working on
> that included a number of old Tmax 100 shots taken with a Rollei.  The
> Tmax 100 grain is bad, and the dust in the wet darkroom (both mine and
> commercial) makes the M9 sensor dust look good.
> 
> So, overall, I'm sufficiently sold on the M9 that, in fact, I'm going
> to be selling off the Bronica RF645 and my remaining 39 rolls of
> (frozen) 120 Tech Pan (and Technidol developer).  I can't quite bring
> myself to selling off my Rolleis, however.  For some reason there is a
> much more emotional attachment to them that will probably cause me to
> keep them forever.
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
> 
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