kermaier
Well-known
Yep, I have a Rolleiflex 3.5E Planar that gets (very) occasional use.
These days it's almost all with the R-D1 and a bunch of vintage lenses for me! (And I kept a Canon F-1 and 50/1.2L for nostalgia's sake.)
::Ari
Al Kaplan
Veteran
One reason why I still keep a couple of 120 TLR's is because I keep meaning to revive and continue a technique that I was playing around with in 1965/1966, and for whatever reason stopped. I have a couple of those old prints mounted and hanging on my wall.
What I did back then was take a red hot needle to burn a clean edged tiny hole through a sheet of black paper. This was then placed right up against the front element of the taking lens, but being a twin lens reflex I still had a bright image on the ground glass although my aperture was perhaps f/200 or smaller. Between the astounding depth of field, diffraction effects from the tiny aperture, and reciprocity failure of the ISO 100 B&W film I was using when the exposures would often be half an hour or more inside the house I was getting some pretty unique images, not crisp but sharper than just a plain pin hole.
What I did back then was take a red hot needle to burn a clean edged tiny hole through a sheet of black paper. This was then placed right up against the front element of the taking lens, but being a twin lens reflex I still had a bright image on the ground glass although my aperture was perhaps f/200 or smaller. Between the astounding depth of field, diffraction effects from the tiny aperture, and reciprocity failure of the ISO 100 B&W film I was using when the exposures would often be half an hour or more inside the house I was getting some pretty unique images, not crisp but sharper than just a plain pin hole.
Bill58
Native Texan
If you don't have to sell them, NOW is not the best time anywhere in the world. Maybe wait a couple of years.
S
Socke
Guest
For gods sake, use whatever gets the results!
I like rolling my own b/w cartridges and I like developing the film, I do it just because I can! I don't like paying and waiting for mediocre C41 prints, so I use a Canon 5D for that
I like rolling my own b/w cartridges and I like developing the film, I do it just because I can! I don't like paying and waiting for mediocre C41 prints, so I use a Canon 5D for that
CK Dexter Haven
Well-known
Hey there, Molecular.
I'm confused here. You're saying the recent RD-1 images on flickr may have been underexposed and that's why they're dark in the online presentation? Do you not make any adjustments to the files after you shoot? Photoshop? It would seem a pretty simple matter to 'fix' those shots. Curves, levels, or even just a quick click on Auto....
Good luck with your decision. But, whatever you've chosen to do today, don't be intimidated by that choice. It's not permanent. And, if you're at all like me, you may end up re-buying the same pieces once or twice. I sincerely hope, though, that you're not like me.....
elshaneo
Panographer
I also studied photography at RMIT University, and I've been using 35mm films, medium format films, large format films, and also digital. I would say that You should go for what makes you happy.
If you nowadays prefer digital, there's nothing wrong with that. Sell your film cameras, and save the money for the tough times or invest in new equipments that You'd like to use with your digital camera.
Anyway, I'm sure You already know that it's the photographer who makes the image, not the camera ;-)
If you nowadays prefer digital, there's nothing wrong with that. Sell your film cameras, and save the money for the tough times or invest in new equipments that You'd like to use with your digital camera.
Anyway, I'm sure You already know that it's the photographer who makes the image, not the camera ;-)
Thomas Turnbull
Member
Way before digital, back in the 80s, I heard Jerry Uelsmann give a talk on how he melded all those negatives into a single print. One of the things he said that's stuck with me might have some pertinence to your quandary.
He told us never to throw away our negatives, no matter how inadequate they might seem at the time, because "things come in cycles" and there will come a time when you'll want to use them again.
If that were the case, it might be wise to just stash the stuff that didn't thrill you at the moment in the safe, and meld your concern to "use everything you've got" into a willingness to patiently respect your own unconscious development, and then just move into your own day by day creative process.
Me too.
Thomas
He told us never to throw away our negatives, no matter how inadequate they might seem at the time, because "things come in cycles" and there will come a time when you'll want to use them again.
If that were the case, it might be wise to just stash the stuff that didn't thrill you at the moment in the safe, and meld your concern to "use everything you've got" into a willingness to patiently respect your own unconscious development, and then just move into your own day by day creative process.
Me too.
Thomas