[rollei_list] Re: Rolleiflex 2.8D = Amazing
- From: Don Williams <dwilli10@xxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:00:32 -0500
At 03:44 PM 3/18/2008 -0400, David Dodge wrote:
>There are a number of cut-fold-fold-and-paste-do-it-yourself cardboard
>Sunny Sixteen slide-rules posted on the web. I have three on my hard
>drive that I could send. Or you could just try google.
>
>I made a business card sized one in a few minutes and keep it in my
>wallet. Works fine except I need glasses in the dark.
>David
From 1955 until perhaps 1980 [Whenever it was I'm not sure, I had to
trade it in for a 3.5F to use my Rolleimarin] I only had a 2.8C with
no built-in light meter. I did almost all my exposures using the
guide lines printed on the sheet in the film box. I would venture to
say that all that time, including a year in Europe (and photos inside
churches, etc,) I had great success just based on the sheet. I don't
think I had an un-usable shot in all that time, and I used both
negative film, and EK 64 and Agfachrome 64 slide film.
It can be done. Some exposures were perhaps 3-4 seconds, just
guesses on my part and some were posted on the old Rollei site. I
don't have the slides at hand right now since we are still un-packing
after being here since October.
I have had, since childhood, a GE Model 8DW58Y4, so old that it says
on the back "For Film or Plates, Use Exposure Index American
Standard Speed Index". I used it along with the paper sheet as
described above, but if it disagreed with my guess I used my
guess. It reads two ranges of reflected light and reads Incident
Light in Ft. Candles, but the selenium cell in it is (and has long
been) very weak and needs replacing. (Same situation for the cell in
my 3.5F I think)
Anyhow, after saying all this, I only mean to say that you can get
along very well without a meter.
DAW
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