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Subject: [Leica] Medium Format
From: lluisripollphotography at gmail.com (lluisripollphotography)
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 13:23:30 +0200
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Yes Jayanand, I think these could be useful for street wwork but I?m still 
old fashioned?.

Cheers
LLuis


> El 20 juny 2017, a les 4:53, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> 
> va escriure:
> 
> 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
>>>> 
>>>> 
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