[rollei_list] Re: 135 vs. 135

  • From: Elias Roustom <eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:44:56 -0500

Slow, cumbersome, marvelous, fun, whatever...
Actually, it speeds up the operation of the TLR. The entire 24x36 frame is visible with the viewfinder loupe, so you can compose and shoot as you have the focus under full control. Without the loupe, and with the mask in place the viewfinder is bright and contrasty. Advancing the film requires a button to be pushed for each frame, but the cranking is a bit faster than for roll film. Where it may be a little slower than roll film, and lot slower than an SLR is in the loading and unloading of the film, but I haven't been in the awkward situation of having to change film quicker than photo opps disappeared since I shot high shcool football games in the early 80s.
I think it should be a requirement that everyone on the Rollei User Group use the Rolleikin at least once. : ) 

Elias

On Nov 17, 2009, at 12:15 AM, Marvin wrote:


Elias, isn’t the Rolleikin a slow cumbersome device for 35mm.
Marvin.

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Subject: [rollei_list] Re: 135 vs. 135

So all the 135 bashing by MF aficionados is just about un-cropped
negative size to enlargement ratio? I know, I know, that's nearly
everything...

Well I still like the 24x36 area I get out of my TLRs, and the
Rolleikin is one hell of a gadget.

Elias

On Nov 16, 2009, at 11:46 PM, Marc James Small wrote:


At 11:37 PM 11/16/2009, Elias Roustom wrote:

a greater data-catch on a Rolleiflex TLR than you do on, say, a
Rolleiflex SL35E.


Because the negative size compensates for it?
So it follows that the center 24x36 area of a TLR 6x6 negative is not 
necessarily sharper, or more data rich, than a 24x36 area from a

micro

format SLR?


Specific lenses vary but, in general, I believe that, no, the
central area of a MF lens is still less capable of resolution than
is a lens designed for miniature-format work.

Marc


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