[rollei_list] Re: Two photographers and Rolleiflex
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:48:02 -0700
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From: "CarlosMFreaza" <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 9:25 AM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Two photographers and Rolleiflex
2010/10/25 John Wild <JWild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Carlos,
Any idea why Alfred Einsestaedt has a ring binder
reinforcement ring
sellotaped to his viewfinder hood? Is it as a focus point
for his portrait
subject?
John
Yes, it looks like a framing mark for a portrait subject
when the
secondary mirror for eye level focusing is used; the pre-war
Automats
don't have the sportsfinder frame for direct subject framing
and then
you only can use the 45º secondary mirror that offers an
up/down
inverted image, it's not so easy to frame a subject using
this way and
then doing the subject to use the circle as reference could
help for a
right framing. The postwar Rolleiflexes (from about 1949)
have a
sportsfinder frame and a secondary mirror combo, and then
you can
focus with this mirror while framing the subject directly.
Carlos
Also, having just worked on one of these cameras, I
discovered that the eyepiece for the eye level finder is not
centered on the ground glass. Its useful for focusing but
not framing. The arrangement on later cameras is better.
I am not sure how a mark on the hood would help,
perhaps a distraction so that subjects don't look directly
into the lens or perhaps just so that they are all looking
at the same spot.
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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