[rollei_list] Supermoon through a Rolleiflex SL35 E
- From: CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 07:59:15 -0300
When I read about the "supermoon" some weeks ago, I imagined a
photograph taken with the moon on the river, The full moon arrived and
I recalled the supermoon last Monday by night, but I was too tired to
go to the river banks.. Anyway, the supermoon was still in the sky on
Tuesday, early in the morning, and then I took the Rolleiflex SL35 E
with the Rolleinar (Mamiya) MC 3,5/200mm and took this photograph:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/itarfoto/14915196611/
I had posted some old Kodachromes taken by my father in the '50s and
beginning the '60s with a Walter Voss Diax IIb rangefinder camera, it
was a very well built camera provided with a Synchro-Compur leaf
shutter and some excellent coated Schneider lenses. My father lent the
Diax outfit to a friend of him, the friend died and we lost the camera
and its three lenses (Xenon 2/50, Xenagon 3,5/35 and Tele Xenar
4/135). Some years ago I found in our local eBay, (Mercado Libre) a
Diax IIa with a Xenon Schneider 2/50, a lens appreciated by Leica TM
camera users too. Diax IIa (previous model) and IIb are almost
identical cameras, however the IIb (one of the last Diax models
manufactured at the Walter Voss factory in Ulm during 1957)added a
lever to advance the film where the IIa has a button and the camera
top is straight where the IIa has a step; the IIb also has a
rangefinder re-designed by Hans Logé, an engineer coming from Rollei
F&H to Walter Voss. I bought the Diax IIa with the Xenon and both were
in excellent condition, but the rangefinder needed an adjustment.; it
was made last year and this is a portrait taken with the camera:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/itarfoto/14895283036/
Carlos
PS: Both images were slightly cropped to improve the composition.
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