[rollei_list] Re: Weegee's strange rolleiflex !
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:28:04 -0700
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From: "Eric Goldstein" <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:50 AM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Weegee's strange rolleiflex !
I'll defer to you Richard but that looks like no blimp I
have ever
seen and sure doesn't inspire a lot of confidence that it
would do
much...
Eric Goldstein
I found a picture of one version of the Raby at:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270335595614
Note the price for this dinasaur.
There were variations on the theme. In the Weegee photo
I can see a Mitchell monitoring finder, the blimp would
close leaving it outside, its hard to tell. The one in the
ebay add above appears to have been fitted with a follow
focus attachment. There were all sorts of blimps, every
studio had their own design. I suppose someone has written
an article about this. If not someone should for us few who
are interested in such things.
If you have John Alton's book _Painting With Light_
there are a couple of pictures of a Raby blimp in it.
--
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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