That's great Carlos - your video quality is much better than mine - I had the same trouble with the film advance with my empty camera on my video. If you look closely you can see that I turned one too many times.
Do you really leave the advance lever out when shooting? I've found that it causes the shutter release button to stick unless I have it back in the closed position. I must be doing something wrong.
As far as keeping the subject in view, I can actually do it more comfortably with the rig held by the large flash in my left hand. It is a heavy rig though... but the other night I got a really good shot (from 7 frames - the others were still focus and well lit, only the subject was not good) of my brother washing his 1 year old, who would not sit still for a second. With practice, the Rolleiflex with Rolleimeter on the pistol grip with a "Hammer" style flash is a very fast shooter - almost as fast as an SLR, in low light maybe a little faster. But what do I really know, I'm just an amateur with a really cool toy. Enjoying it just the same. Gives me healthy sense of respect for the professionals of yesteryear.
Elias On Dec 25, 2008, at 7:59 AM, Carlos Manuel Freaza wrote:
Elias:I think your method is good and safe if you don't need to maintain the subject framed for other photograph, I did a video clip lower resolution than yours about the way I use the Rollei grip, however I'd like to do the following clarifications:1)The firsts seconds are supposed to focus the subject turning the focusing knob with the left hand. I forgot to do it. 2)I lose film advance crank "feeling" without film, the crank advance becomes light too much and I lost time paying attention to the crank, I do things more quick with film ( I don't fold -unfold the crank).3)I knew I was doing a videoclip and became "nervous". http://video.google.es/videoplay?docid=-8568288160046005401&hl=es Carlos --- El dom 21-dic-08, Elias Roustom <eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:Yes, Carlos and Richard it works beautifully. I got the hang of it right away - quite natural. A little awkward with wool gloves on while romping through foot deep snow with my dog. My daughter and I made this very low res video file to show how the advance is done with the right hand while using the big Sunpak flash: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1722756263726713433&hl=en What can I say, school's out for the holidays and I've got to keep her busy. You can also see the rig (or kit) with the Sunpak here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/elroustom/3126687912/ Elias On Dec 21, 2008, at 4:40 PM, Richard Sintchak wrote:Sory, "advice" should be"advance"....On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Richard Sintchak<rich815@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:While it may sound awkward try using the left handto advice, justtilt the whole rig over slightly reach the lefthand over and crank,never taking the right hand off the grip. Ibelieve that how it wasdesigned to work. It's very capable andergonomic that way. Try it.-- Richard S. San Francisco My Photography Website http://www.lightshadowandtone.com My Flickr Riverhttp://flickriver.com/photos/rich8155/popular-interesting/My Commute Photo Blog http://shootingonthefly.blogspot.com/ On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Elias Roustom<eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Thanks to all who chimed in on my inquiry intothe pistol grip. I've got apretty good kit put together now. You can see it with a Canon speedlight 199A tothe griphere:http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3293/3124302150_48b558c797.jpg.I've run roll through with an even olderSunpak 3400 (hammer style). Bigrig, but looks even more impressive, and alittle faster to use as theflash's column is sturdy enough to holdwith the left hand while the rightlets go of the pistol grip to advance. Flashphotography with Rolleiflexadds another dimension, and about six moreorders of difficulty, but it'sfun. Elias On Dec 7, 2008, at 7:58 PM, Carlos ManuelFreaza wrote:Elias, I repeat the URL for the equipmentsetup photograph, my messageapperead in the list, perhaps you did notreceive it (please let me know ifyou could see the image). It's the third photograph, I wroteit's not a good scanning due to I used myhttp://dobleobjetivo.blogspot.com/2006/10/some-rollei-tlr- cameras.htmlold scanner:Carlos --- El dom 7-dic-08, Elias Roustom<eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:De: Elias Roustom <eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx> Asunto: [rollei_list] Re: Pistol Grip Para: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Fecha: domingo, 7 de diciembre de 2008, 9:50pmHi Carlos, Mark and I mean a photo of the camera with thepistol gripand the flash - I found the URLs for the two photosyou took(beautiful), but I could not find any URL for a photo of thecamera. Isthere one? Jerry - I don't mean I want a photo postedto the list,I mean a link to a photo posted elsewhere. Elias On Dec 7, 2008, at 7:43 PM, Carlos ManuelFreaza wrote:If you read my first answer to your post, Iwrote theURL for two photographs taken using the set-up and I alsowrotethe URL about the setup photograph.- Carlos --- El dom 7-dic-08, Mark Rabiner <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió: De: Mark Rabiner <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Asunto: [rollei_list] Re: Pistol Grip Para: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Fecha: domingo, 7 de diciembre de 2008, 9:34pmLets see a picture that setup takes. mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mark William Rabiner From: Jerry Lehrer <glehrer@xxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:01:15 -0800 To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Pistol Grip Sorry, but the RUG won't accept photos Elias Roustom wrote: On Dec 7, 2008, at 5:21 AM, Carlos Manuel Freaza wrote: to use an electronic flash via a flash bracket attached to the Rollei grip. How does that work? Does anybody have a picture of that setup? 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