[rollei_list] Re: Veering OT: 120 Chrome and all of that
- From: Grégoire Jacques Vandenschrick <fa420324@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 20:48:07 +0200
Long time ago I didn't wrote here...
I had the same feeling some times ago, suddenly realizing that the hi-fi shop
where I used to drool over Sony DD walkman was gone a long time ago. That
space, that Sony DD-9 was there, unbelievably expensive, to listen my Jimi
Hendrix tape... I was too young for that money. And then CD player went, and
then Apple launched its first iPod, and here we are, with all these cellphone
taking pics, playing music, speaking, and sometimes I just want to throw it
away. Alas, there's no way back to these days.
Hopefully, to play and make pictures with that beautifully immaculate Rollei
2.8F whiteface is so reassuring, so comforting. Really, some night it's a
sorrow I need to make vanish, cranking and taking a pic without rollfilm
inside, just to be sure this camera is not a dream, and everything is not
simply lost. Like to listen to an old Dylan.
Best Regards,
Greg
Le 2 oct. 2012 à 07:58, Marc James Small a écrit :
> At 12:07 AM 10/2/2012, John & Jill Goddard wrote:
>
> >
> >Nothing compares with a projected Rollei 6x6 slide though!
> >
>
> Lord almighty, yes! I have a screen and I have a projector and I have the
> slides. A 120 slide is a delight. I have a few pictures of my long-dead
> wife with a pumpkin which I find especially nice. Traitor to the breed that
> I am, I also have some macro shots made on my Ha$$ellblad 2000 FC/M. Heck,
> if the owner of the Hasselblad list, Jim Brick, wants to be a member of the
> Rollei List I own, so be it. He owns the Hasselblad List in turn, and I am a
> member there as well. Jim now denies the reality, but we first met on the
> LUG when he lectured me on the distinction between an 8mm barrel and a
> ,30-'06 round. Thank you, Jim Brick.
>
> A 120 slide has a magic to it. You have to see it to understand that.
> PowerPoint be damned. Set up the screen and power up the slide projector and
> stay awake to be amazed. Whether shot on a Rolleiflex TLR or an SL66 or a
> Ha$$elblad SWC, the images will leave you stunned. They can be of your
> children playing in the surf at Point Negros or wherever. It does not matter
> the content -- the pictures as projected will amaze you. A larger slide is
> simply too much for the eye to tale in my view. Now, a 120 slide is
> everything a photographer could ever want. Well, we didn't buy Kochachrome
> and so they killed it. We all let Big Yellow down on hat one, as we always
> though that Kodachrome would be around forever. Shucks, we all knew that
> camera stores would be around forever. I should be copyinb this note to a
> couple of those guys who lost their jobs when the old Ewald-Clark concern got
> bought up in the 1990's. That McClanahan nonsense? Hmph. America's
> Favorite Poster Child, as Don Jester used to call him back in the very
> longago, when I could walk in and buy five rolls of 120 Kodachrome-25 rolls.
> I care for these people as best I can.
>
> Marc
>
>
> It is a good world for doing good deeds.
> -- Nathaniel the Faun
>
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