[rollei_list] Re: Sweet spot: f8/f11?
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:16:09 -0700
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From: "Edward Meyers" <aghalidebw@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 4:08 AM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Sweet spot: f8/f11?
In Modern Photography Magazine where I worked in the 1960s,
amonst the many
columnists I was given to edit was Norman Rothschild. He
wrote and I edited
a column on color photography. In it he mentioned the use of
the Rolleikin
for his Rolleiflex. He used it to photograph children in the
1930s or 40s.
He especially liked to use the Rollei with the Rolleikin
since the image
was rendered in a vertical rather than a horizontal making
it more
efficient for portraiture.
Ed Meyers
When I was in highschool I assisted one of my teachers
who did "kidnapping" on the side. This was photographing
newborn babies on speculation and then selling the resulting
pictures to the parents. A racket indeed. We used
Rolleicords with Rolleikins on them. The film was cheap and
the vertical format and slightly long focal length for the
format was about perfect.
Its likely that the first Rolleikins were intended to
allow the use of 35mm color film in the Rollei because it
mostly was not available in roll film sizes. I think one
reason for the plate adaptor was also for color film of the
additive type which had a reseau of either colored inks or
dyed starch grains held on the glass backing. At least one
of these was used with the glass facing the lens requiring
some sort of focus adjustment.
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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