Rollei 35 - one year

No. 3 in Roll 102 spoke to me, Zeno.

Because the little Rollei is zone focus, are you ever happily suprised by a point of focus different from what you intended?
 
Another question for you, Petronius: are you represented in a gallery at all? You're one of my favorite photographers here; I have to believe someone like you can make a living with their art.
 
Thank you Paul!
hipsterdufus, I´m very thankful for your kind words! I´m not represented by a gallery; whoever wants one of my photos, receives a print or a hi-res file for free.
Art for living was never a way for me. My father is an educated artist and as a child I often saw how hard it was for him to earn enough money to feed his family.
Today I have a regularily paid job and shoot for the fun of it. And that´s good.
I don´t have any intention to make money with my photography, because I´m sure this would change my vision. And that would be bad.
When I die one day and no one ever takes further notice of my photos, well, I had the fun taking them!
 
Zeno, I love this one...

Reminds me of a French rendering of film noire -- Melville or Clouzot.
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Hope you don't me posting your images into your thread without permission.
 
Rob, thank you. Post them as you want!

Paul, I missed your question! The focus is mostly where I want it or completely off.

AgentX said:
Thanks for sharing the blog. It's made me think quite a bit.
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Thank you!
Any chance to read some of your thoughts?
 
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Many thanks for posting here and sharing your blog.
I love the idea of seeing slices of someone's everyday experiences and sights.
It has helped me to make an attempt to get myself away from a gear centric rut, with a more modest project to take at least one fresh image each week on a limited range of kit. (This may sound simple, but could be a challenge!)

Dave..
 
petronius said:
Thank you!
Any chance to read some of your thoughts?
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Well, I can't guarantee any of it will be organized or useful, but...

You love tone and texture, the way they interact, and the way the camera renders them, and seem to shoot for joy of revealing this. Is this a revelation, or can it be a limitation in that it tends ultimately towards personal introspection rather than communication? Or is it both? Does knowing how much time you spend on this affect the way I view it?

Your work is intensely personal, visual note-taking at its finest. It's not a narrative but lives on the edge of narrative, deliberately looking at/granting significance to that which wouldn't often be considered significant.

Although you have some particular images that are striking, I think the work is much more coherent seen as a whole, and the temporal aspect is important. The whole thing is a very photographic catalog. You remind us that the images are self-consciously photographs, objects in and of themselves (or are they, being digitally presented?), through your method of presentation and filing on the blog; I can't consider the referent of the photo without considering the photo itself and where it sits in time and organization as an image among the other images you make. The indexical potential of photography is inescapably encoded into the work's presentation but is merged with the potentialities and conventions of the Internet.

I'd like to try the long-duration stand development you're using, and will give it a go. Sounds convenient and seems like you're getting good results even without use of a light meter.

Maybe I should stop moving to bigger formats and just carry my old Olympus XA around again. But I just got my large format setup running again.

There's something to be said for volume of images and experimentation over laborious slow and predictable work.

and so on and so on.



Again, thanks for sharing the blog and your great work.
 
Petronious you are an inspiration to your fellow Rollei 35 user, I currently own two Rollei 35 and I have owned a few more in the past, funny enough all were used but not abused but all had a ding here or there. I feeel at night a magic sprite runs amuck in the world with a little hammer hitting Rollei 35's hence the dings and dents. The corners are particularly vulnerable I feel
 
AgentX, you named most of my intentions perfectly. The personal aspect beside the serial structure are most important for me. I´ll have to read your answer some more times to get it fully, because my english has reached it´s limits in some phrases. Thank you!

The stand developing does not give the same results with every film, so you should test carefully!

lxmike, I have two Rollei 35 and ironically the bodies are clean and dentless, but the focusing rings have some issues.
 
petronius said:
AgentX, you named most of my intentions perfectly. The personal aspect beside the serial structure are most important for me. I´ll have to read your answer some more times to get it fully, because my english has reached it´s limits in some phrases. Thank you!

The stand developing does not give the same results with every film, so you should test carefully!
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Entschuldigung-mein Deutsch ist furchtbar geworden!
 
You inspired me to buy a 35t which I'm learning to use. Do you ever shoot with a flash since the lens is kind of slow? I bought a e15b and have the first roll in using it. I'm assuming it's not automatic and I have to use the scale on back and adjust aperture Thanks for doing your blog!
Jim
 
jcrutcher said:
You inspired me to buy a 35t which I'm learning to use. Do you ever shoot with a flash since the lens is kind of slow? I bought a e15b and have the first roll in using it. I'm assuming it's not automatic and I have to use the scale on back and adjust aperture Thanks for doing your blog!
Jim
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Thank you for your kind words!
I never use flash. I posted some nightshots in my blog over the last weeks. Exposures were mostly 1/2 - 10 sec, sometimes with fixed camera, sometimes handheld.
 
Zeno,

Your inspiration is definitely bad for our wallets ;)

Since the accident with my 35S, I have managed to find a nice 35TE for not a lot of money (OK, about £10 more than a B, but probably less than the service cost for the S), so I'm hoping that will be here tomorrow or Thursday :D

The S service will have to wait until my birthday.......
 
So I´m the scapegoat for your GAS!

My next project will be shot with one of these:
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1,– Euro per truckload! No regrets after a GAS attack.

Just kidding!

But the output of one of these "cameras" is not so bad:
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