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I'm going to Paris in October and all I'm bringing is a pair of Rollei 2.8 E's. I don't think I'm even going to bring the Fuji GSW 690 II I was loaned. Just keep it simple and then everything you shoot is natural to you because you're not thinking about format switching all the time.
 
Dang!

Dang!

ricnak said:
My first developed rolleiflex pic from the rolleiflex 2.8e, FP4+125.

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I am terribly late to the party, but this is astonishing. It fairly jumps out of the screen at me, so three-dimensional. Just wow.
 
^ sadly, the above camera had SEVERE lens separation. I thought about just living with it until I spoke to a techie from down south.

I ended up returning it to the owner. I missed it from day 1 and have been on the holy grail search since then. There is another TLR on the way - a special one. A very slow to get here one.
 
2.8 E Planars aren't so rare you can't find them in good condition with just a little patience. And you can find them in good condition at a very reasonable price if you're moderately patient. I paid less than $600 USD each for mine - the first one did need an overhaul which set me back $350-ish, but the other one is excellent, and even looks near-new.
 
We went for a sail on Sunday, and I brought along the Yashica-Mat and a roll of FP4+. It's actually the first roll I've developed from it, though I shot some earlier at the Common Ground Country Fair (they're drying as we type).

Developed in Rodinal 1:50 in case you were wondering.

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Nice tones on all four of those but I'm especially impressed with this one where you've got detail in the subject's shadowed brow, but also retained texture in the sail, which could have easily been blown. (Blown, exposure-wise, that is ... sorry ... obviously it was blown by the wind ... being a sail and all...)
--Dave
 
Argenticien said:
Nice tones on all four of those but I'm especially impressed with this one where you've got detail in the subject's shadowed brow, but also retained texture in the sail, which could have easily been blown. (Blown, exposure-wise, that is ... sorry ... obviously it was blown by the wind ... being a sail and all...)
--Dave
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It probably helped that the wind was pretty light. I have to say, it was the 'highlight' of my weekend.
 
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