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[Tuna]

Rolleiflex 2.8e, Ektar

 

[Evergreen States]

Walking from Pioneer Park to the Whitman College campus along Alder, I came across this lilac bush in someone's driveway. I'm still not used to shooting with a TLR and inadvertently jerked the camera as I fired the shutter. But I think the slight motion blur works with the lo-fi look of the expired film, which came from @cjm 's stash.

E Alder St
Walla Walla, Washington
May 2025

Minolta Autocord
Ilford XP2 (expired)

[url=https://flic.kr/p/2rKWL4k]Lilacs by Francine Pierre Saget, on Flickr[/URL]

 

[Richard G]

Walking from Pioneer Park to the Whitman College campus along Alder, I came across this lilac bush in someone's driveway. I'm still not used to shooting with a TLR and inadvertently jerked the camera as I fired the shutter. But I think the slight motion blur works with the lo-fi look of the expired film, which came from @cjm 's stash.

E Alder St
Walla Walla, Washington
May 2025

Minolta Autocord
Ilford XP2 (expired)

[url=https://flic.kr/p/2rKWL4k]Lilacs by Francine Pierre Saget, on Flickr[/URL]

It’s beautiful. I sympathise with your motion blur problem with the TLR which I don’t see here on the phone. I’ve not seen the sharpness one can get at 1/15s using my TLR. I have had some sharp shots but usually at 1/250s.

 

[Richard G]

In the manual for my Rolleiflex Automat there is an emphasis on a taut neck strap for taking a sharp image. Often a Hasselblad is held high, using the magnifier for accurate focus and the forehead stabilizing the camera. In the Rolleiflex manual they recommend shortening the strap with one hand (or both hands, depending on how high the camera is to be) by wrapping the strap around the hand if shooting with the magnified focus. Ernst Wildi who wrote the Hasselblad manual was a big proponent of the monopod. I’ve had very sharp images with that, even at 1/60s. I’m still struggling with the Rolleiflex.

 

[38Deardorff]

In the manual for my Rolleiflex Automat there is an emphasis on a taut neck strap for taking a sharp image. Often a Hasselblad is held high, using the magnifier for accurate focus and the forehead stabilizing the camera. In the Rolleiflex manual they recommend shortening the strap with one hand (or both hands, depending on how the camera is to be) by wrapping the strap around the hand if shooting with the magnified focus. Ernst Wildi who wrote the Hasselblad manual was a big proponent of the monopod. I’ve had very sharp images with that, even at 1/60s. I’m still struggling with the Rolleiflex.

I've often used the taut neckstrap approach....successfully