Alan:
Both shots are very interesting. I specially liked the Grand
Canyon picture, you chose a very good frame, the landscape is spectacular
and the WA Mutar did a good job in conjunction with the lens.
Carlos.
2017-09-24 15:19 GMT-03:00 Allan Derickson <alland435@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
This summer we took a family vacation to the Grand Canyon as well as Bryce
and Zion National Parks. I took my Rollei 3.5F Planar and both Tele and
Wide Angle Mutars plus several rolls of Fuji Velvia 100 220. At the last
minute, as digital backup, I threw in a Nikon Coolpix A.
Some impressions:
These parks are truly international attractions. A Ranger told me that at
least 50% of the visitors are foreigners. I heard French, Spanish, German,
Dutch, Danish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and many more languages.
If you carry a Rollei be prepared to be an attraction yourself. I found
people staring at my chest. I now know what a well-endowed woman feels like
wearing a low cut blouse :) On every trail someone chatted me up about my
Rollei.
Early in the trip while we were in Bryce National Park I had a bit of a
scare. I finished the first roll and loaded another. I have been doing this
for so long it's automatic for me and I was dumbfounded when the second
roll wound right through the camera! I thought "I wonder if I could have
missed placing the film between the feeler rollers?". Doubtful, but I
loaded another roll, this time carefully checking that it was indeed
between the rollers. Same result - wound through without stopping. This
time I looked at the counter window. Aha! It hadn't reset to zero. I didn't
want to take the time to fool with it so I picked up the Nikon and used it
to take most of my photos of Bryce. Later that night I found that if the
Rollei counter didn't reset the first time by opening and closing the back
once or twice more it would do the trick. I've owned this camera since new
in 1971 and the only service it has ever had was a shutter CLA. The winding
mechanism has never been done so I'm thinking it's time.
I was able to use the Rollei for the remainder of the trip. I just
carefully checked for the film counter to reset every time I reloaded.
One more thing: I found a lens shade for my Wide Angle Mutar at a
reasonable cost and this was the first time I used it. I found it heavily
vignetted the top of the image and I had to crop that off.
Here is a shot of a free-ranging herd of American Bison just North of the
North Rim of the Grand Canyon taken with the Tele Mutar:
https://flic.kr/p/YGDxfV
And here is a shot taken with the Wide Angle Mutar (top cropped off):
https://flic.kr/p/YGDqPZ
Allan
