cassel
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Anything you can do, I can do better!
That seemed to be the thinking of the Japanese camera industry in the post-war era. In this case, we have the little Rollei copy - the Tokyo Kogaku made Primo Jr 127 Twin Lens Reflex with a great Topcor f2.8 lens.
It was a winding path that led me to the Primo and I documented that path in the "Love my Baby - Rolleiflex 4x4" thread -https://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=162171
Really great to see all the interest and contributions of photographers from all over the world that share a love of the Baby Rollei. My opinion is that the 127 roll film TLR has some significant advantages - namely it's compact size and great image quality potential with a negative right between 35mm and 120. Obviously the big drawback is film avalibility - which means expensive, limited and/or expired stock... but you already know all that🙂
The Primo is a fun side-ways move from the Rollei - different in a few ways but not necessarily better ( I prefer it, though😉. I like the lever wind, the faster lens and shutter controls a bit better than the Rollei.
I like to have threads here on RFF as a place to track my use of different camera systems and just had several rolls processed from the Primo - so, without further introduction, here's the camera itself and a few images from the last several rolls:
That seemed to be the thinking of the Japanese camera industry in the post-war era. In this case, we have the little Rollei copy - the Tokyo Kogaku made Primo Jr 127 Twin Lens Reflex with a great Topcor f2.8 lens.
It was a winding path that led me to the Primo and I documented that path in the "Love my Baby - Rolleiflex 4x4" thread -https://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=162171
Really great to see all the interest and contributions of photographers from all over the world that share a love of the Baby Rollei. My opinion is that the 127 roll film TLR has some significant advantages - namely it's compact size and great image quality potential with a negative right between 35mm and 120. Obviously the big drawback is film avalibility - which means expensive, limited and/or expired stock... but you already know all that🙂
The Primo is a fun side-ways move from the Rollei - different in a few ways but not necessarily better ( I prefer it, though😉. I like the lever wind, the faster lens and shutter controls a bit better than the Rollei.
I like to have threads here on RFF as a place to track my use of different camera systems and just had several rolls processed from the Primo - so, without further introduction, here's the camera itself and a few images from the last several rolls:
