[rollei_list] Re: Rollei 35

  • From: "Eric Goldstein" <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 17:45:38 -0400

Triplets can in fact perform well shot open if they are well designed
and well made. They will not be sharp in the corners, and there will
be oblique spherical (same for Tessars), but that does not mean they
are not excellent for the requirements of the shot...

Eric Goldstein

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On 10/1/07, Jerry Friedman <tinycameraco@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is generally true and has saved a great many pictures.
> Even triplets will perform well closed down and set at a
> far distance. Several days ago  I mentioned a Rolfix 6x9
> with a 105mm f/4.5 Schneider Radionar lens. This is a
> fairly mediocre lens and yet on one particular camera,
> where the lens had been centered more carefully, the lens
> was excellent for infinity at f/16.
>
> Many of the very fine pictures we have seen here made with
> a Rollei 35, esp. one inside a Cathedral which I believe
> caught everyone's attention, was simiarly shot at great
> distance.
>
> I do not wish to mix metaphores, as it were, but box camera
> will also do well at infinity if they can be kept stable.
> There is a fellow on ebay who has made a small living
> selling old Agfa 6x9 cameras cameras which he uses on a
> tripod. Along with his cameras, he presents some of the
> pictres he has made with these simple cameras. He calls
> them the most under estimated cameras but the fact is that
> at iniinity, lens closed down and on a tripod, many cameras
> do surprisingly well.
>
> Jerry Friedman
>
>
>
> --- "Peter K." <peterk727@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Sure, as long as you are shooting at infinity and stopped
> > down I think
> > any lens will produce a quality image.several days ago
> >
> > On 10/1/07, Dave Wyman <davewyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > I love the Rollei 35, and I've made all sorts of
> > photographs with it,
> > > from sea level on up. I have a few versions of the
> > camera. My favorite
> > > model, the 35S, accompanied me in August, as it did so
> > many times
> > > three decades ago, up into the Sierra Nevada Mountains
> > of California.
> > > I have a photo made from that trip here:
> > >
> > > http://www.pbase.com/davewyman/image/86523089/original
> > >
> > > Actually, it's two photos, rather quickly stitched
> > together w/ the
> > > help of Photoshop.
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > > http://www.davewyman.com
> > > http://www.pbase.com/davewyman
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