Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/06/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I still have the waist level finder for the Nikon F3 that served the same purpose. Actually, the new digital cameras, mainly mirrorless, with an electronic shutter and a tilting back screen are completely and comprehensively silent, and serve the same purpose. Even better is to use a phone app to control the camera hanging around your neck - human subjects on the street have not rumbled on to that yet! Cheers Jayanand On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 11:46 PM, lluisripollphotography < lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote: > To all > > Thank you for looking and comenting. > > Dan, as Mark says in our days many people has no idea how it work a > Rolleiflex, others look at it and ask me how old it is? but you can point > your camera to your subject quite easy and the people don?t see the > ?agressivity? when a camera is on the eyes level, in addition the > Rolleiflex is really a silent shooter, even more than a M3, yhe only > inconvenient for me is focusing precisely. > > Lluis > > > > > > El 19 juny 2017, a les 13:17, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> va > escriure: > > > > Its because you?re looking down into a thing which is up against your > chest which has two around pieces of glass one over the other on it. Eye > level shooting is very similar to shooting shooting. It way more > aggressive feeling to the person being photographed. A Rolleiflex seems > like a sweet looking laid back non-aggressive relic from a day gone by and > that was 30 years ago. They don?t even think theres a good chance the > picture will ?come out? when they try bringing to the drug store. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Mark William Rabiner > > Photographer > > > > On 6/19/17, 6:55 AM, "LUG on behalf of Dan Khong" <lug-bounces+mark= > rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of dankhong at gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Lluis > > > > These are amazing pictures and I am wondering how anyone can hold a > TLR > > camera (which by today's standard can attract loads of attention), > walk up > > to these people and shoot them like as though you don't exist. > > > > Regards > > > > Dan K. > > > > On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 9:12 AM, lluisripollphotography < > > lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Indian > >> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Zurich+Corner/ > >> 2017F010303.jpg.html> > >> > >> Fumando espero > >> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Zurich+Corner/ > >> 2017F010302.jpg.html> > >> > >> Rolleiflex E Planar 80 f2.8, Ilford HP5, Xtol 1+3 > >> > >> Thanks for looking, your c&c are welcome > >> > >> Saludos cordiales > >> Lluis > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information