[rollei_list] Re: OT:Walter Voss Diax cameras
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:17:20 -0700
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From: "CarlosMFreaza" <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7:42 PM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: OT:Walter Voss Diax cameras
2009/10/21 Elias Roustom <eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
....
I have a very similar Rollei 35 to yours. I've been giving
my Rollei 35 a
lot of attention lately.
It adequately meets the needs of a very wide range of 35mm
photography.
...
Thank you Elias.
The only difference is your Rollei 35 has a S-Xenar 3,5/40
lens and
this is not a difference because it's a Tessar 3,5/40 copy.
I'll never forget the excellent way my Rollei 35 captured
several
Spaniard-colonial churches inner light working at 1/15 f4
and f3,5
camera handheld when I visited Córdoba city -the second
largest city
in my country- two years ago, The photographs are in my
Flickr gallery
and I think several of the members have seen them. Knowing
the very
difficult conditions to take those photographs, I only can
think the
Rollei 35 is an excellent camera.
Some people don't like the 40mm focal length saying it is
not
"normal" for the 35 mm format and it is not a wide angle
lens yet,
however it increases the lens DOF regarding a 50mm lens and
the images
still don't have the "wide angle" look.
Carlos
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Mostly "normal" means a lens which is equal in focal
length to the diagonal of the format. For 35mm that comes
out to about 44 mm, but, if you assume that most 35mm images
will be cropped to about 1.33:1 format the focal length come
out to 40mm! 1.33:1 is the old standard motion picture
format and is about an average of common paper formats. I
suspect 50mm became "normal" because it may have been easier
to design an adeqate lens if the focal length was slightly
longer.
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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