[rollei_list] Re: Rolleiflex 35mm Cameras
- From: CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 14:35:30 -0300
My answer was specific to Austin and now I answer to you specifically:
1) It's obvious I couldn't use a 400mm long focus lens on a Rollei 35S
since it does not have interchangeable lenses, it was the point I
wrote to Austin, different targets require different cameras, but the
point was also to say a Rollei 35 camera quality construction has
nothing to do with a Seagull.
2)You are lucky with your Rollei SL 35 cameras, I'm also lucky with
them because after a CLA they are working perfect, but bad reliability
issues contributed to their market shriking when they were
manufactured.
Carlos
2009/11/9 Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> At 12:12 PM 11/9/2009, CarlosMFreaza wrote:
>>Austin, it's obvious the Rolleiflex is a better camera than others to
>>me, otherwise I wouldn't be a Rollei user, but it's better for my
>>photography, for the way I see the photography as activity, there are
>>better cameras if you need to capture a lyon hunting in the Kalahari,
>>a SLR film or digital is the best tool for that task.
>>
>>A Rollei 35 with a Sonnar 2.8 lens is as capable as any Leica to take
>>an excellent photograph and even an unreliable Rollei SL 35 with a
>>Planar Zeiss lens can take images from the highest quality if working
>>right, but it does not mean that the Leica is not a very good camera
>>Carlos
>
> Hmm. You might be pushing things a bit here.
>
> First, the Rollei 35S IS an outstanding camera and I carry one in my
> glovebox. It can take some really fine pictures as can the basic 35. But
> it is designed for different things than is the Leica RF camera. Try taking
> a picture with a 5/400 long-focus lens on the 35S. It won't work. Horses
> for courses: Leitz never made a camera with the virtues of the 35S, but the
> 35S is not nearly as capable a camera in general terms as is the Leica RF.
>
> Second, I am not certain what you mean by "an unreliable Rollei SL 35" as I
> have never encountered such, though I have owned several very reliable
> Rolleiflex SL35's. But using an SLR in miniature format is an experience
> worlds away from using a rangefinder camera in that format. I still own a
> Rolleiflex SL35 E -- I sold off all of my Leica R gear once I got the 35 E
> as it better matched my needs. But for normal photography, I take either a
> Leica RF or a Contax RF. I do VERY little flash work and shooting jazz
> groups in a smoky bar at night mandates a rangefinder. An SLR just cannot
> do the job.
>
> Marc
>
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>
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