[rollei_list] Re: Two photographers and Rolleiflex
- From: CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:25:45 -0300
2010/10/25 John Wild <JWild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Carlos,
>
> Any idea why Alfred Einsestaedt has a ring binder reinforcement ring
> sellotaped to his viewfinder hood? Is it as a focus point for his portrait
> subject?
>
> John
Yes, it looks like a framing mark for a portrait subject when the
secondary mirror for eye level focusing is used; the pre-war Automats
don't have the sportsfinder frame for direct subject framing and then
you only can use the 45º secondary mirror that offers an up/down
inverted image, it's not so easy to frame a subject using this way and
then doing the subject to use the circle as reference could help for a
right framing. The postwar Rolleiflexes (from about 1949) have a
sportsfinder frame and a secondary mirror combo, and then you can
focus with this mirror while framing the subject directly.
Carlos
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