shortstop
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hi, I have a Rolleiflex 3.5 F with Rolleinar 1 and Rolleinar 3. Someone has tried them for the portrait? Planar 75 is a focal too short? the distance to the subject would be too short. Thank you, Antonio
Rolleiflex portraiture
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Larry H-L
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Shortstop, there is an extensive "sticky" thread in the TLR forum here on exactly this issue.
shortstop
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Nice,
Can you tell me how to find it? I did a search, but don't find nothing
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Antonio
Richard G
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Here's the URL for the sticky thread on Rolleinars in the TLR forum. I don't think 75 is too short. The Rolleinar 1 and 2 can be very useful for portraits on the 75 and the depth of field is nicely reduced. I haven't used a Rolleinar 3.
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42309
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42309
shortstop
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Excellent. Thanks
Antonio
Photo_Smith
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shortstop
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I like this photo. Windows light?
NY_Dan
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Here's a photo shot with a Rolleiflex 3.5f, Rolleinar 3, Kodak Tri-X 120 of noted cinematographer Edward Lachman, 5/26/2013 on the corner of 34th St and 9th Avenue, NYC.
And here's a shot of a boy at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade 6/23/2012 shot with Rolleiflex 2.8f and Rolleinar 1.
And here's a shot of a boy at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade 6/23/2012 shot with Rolleiflex 2.8f and Rolleinar 1.
shortstop
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I took this photo with my 3,5f and a Rolleinar 3.
shortstop
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I think I'll go to use my Rolleinars (1and3) for portraiture. These are convincing examples. Rolleiflex never ceases to amaze me.
Best
Antonio
KoNickon
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I think the 1 is as tight as you'd want to go in 90% of portrait situations.
froyd
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Rolleinar 3 is best for macro-type photos... too tight for face shots, unless it's a very specific application, i.e. crop of the eye.
I've used 1 and 2 happily for head shots, but as KoNickon wrote, #1 is what I use the majority of the time. I might use #2 today to photograph my daughter who just lost her first tooth so I'll want to get in pretty close.
I've used 1 and 2 happily for head shots, but as KoNickon wrote, #1 is what I use the majority of the time. I might use #2 today to photograph my daughter who just lost her first tooth so I'll want to get in pretty close.
NY_Dan
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Avedon used Rolleinars - and that's good enough for me 🙂
I also shoot with the number 2. The challenge with Rolleinars is interacting with your subject in such a way as they become comfortable with having a stranger photograph them from such a close distance. A Rolleinar 1 is level one of trust, going to a 2 is even more, and by the time you get to a 3 you've really achieved something. Imagine meeting someone on the street, gaining their trust, making a photo with a Rolleinar 3, and going on your way all in under 3 minutes. That always blows my mind. But if you're sincere, and if the subject has a good sense of self and appreciates artistic stuff, then it can be done. With a Rolleinar 2 or 3 one often wants to have a prism finder handy because a waist level is much harder to employ unless your subject is sitting. Be sure to mount the Rolleinar viewing lens with red dot at 12 o'clock so the parallax is positioned properly -- very accurate by the way. And Rolleinar viewing lenses are easy to take apart and clean.
Other considerations: I focus on the eye closest to me. I also recommend smaller f/stops like 11 1/2. Rather than only using the focusing know, I also move the camera in and out very slightly to hit focus. The focus even at small f/stops is incredibly shallow.
Frank Petronio
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It helps to chew breath mints.
NY_Dan
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Ahaha! Actually to make it challenging I eat lots of garlic and say the word "Limburger."
mfogiel
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I would not say, that every portrait has to be a distorted close-up, although some can be interesting, like this photo by Bailey:
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/472807660850072216/
A 75 Planar will give you lots of wonderful images, particularly, if you keep at a distance of 1.2-1.5 m:
M. by mfogiel, on Flickr
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/472807660850072216/
A 75 Planar will give you lots of wonderful images, particularly, if you keep at a distance of 1.2-1.5 m:
M. by mfogiel, on Flickr
NY_Dan
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mfogiel -- if you want head and shoulders you need a #1 rolleinar, or if you have a Tele Rolleiflex and a .35 Rolleinar that works too. As for the photo by Bailey -- just my opinion, but it's not my fave at all -- except for the lighting of her face. Now his Peter Sellers photo -- that's extraordinary!
Brian Legge
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Love it with the 75mm planar with Rolleinar 1:
