It is nice to have an address here for TLR users. I have been taking pictures in middle format with my Rollei (Planar) 3.5 E in six years and I really enjojed with it. Recently I got a Mamiya c330 with two lenses (65 and 80 mm) which offers me more flexibility in taking picture. I love TLR!
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#201 #202 Yashicaflex and Yashica MAT 124-G.#203 Hi, I'm real new here and don't quite know how to navigate to ask a question so please forgive any wrong moves and direct me to the right area if I'm in the wrong place. I recently purchased a Rolleiflex GX and, although the original screen was bright, I had a Maxwell (I think) screen from a previous GX that's brighter so I switched 'em. The newer screen IS brighter but it is a matte field with gridlines and no microprism or split image in the center. With my eyes I need something more to confirm focus, even using the built-in magnifier. Can anyone help me identify the screen I've put in and tell me whether there's a means to trade with someone else for a split-image or if I should just try to sell the screen and get a maxwell with a split image? I could use some good advice. Thanks, Bob.#204 I think like you I need the split image. I guess in your place I would first contact Bill Maxwell and confirm that the one with no microprism or split image is indeed a Maxwell. Then I would sell it on ebay or here in APUG and buy from Bill a Maxwell screen that has a split image. Or perhaps get the Beattie screen.
Dennis#205 I own a Mamiya C330 (4 lenses) and a Yashica 24.#206 If you don't mind, I would like to join your TLR users group. I have a Rolleiflex TLR 2.8 80 Planar. I own this beauty for a hell of a long time. It is one great camera.
Jeff#208 Damn, I would but am I'm a diabetic. Life sucks sometimes but what are the alteratives.#210 Just out of curiosity, was there ever a small format (35mm film) TLR made, or a TLR that was not square format? I know of the mini 127 Yashicas (and Rolleis, of course), but that's it. (The guy at the camera repair shop I sometimes use keeps jokingly trying to get me to buy the little blue one that has been in his display case for years.)#211 When I got my Rollie from my father there was device or insert that you place in the camera that will let you use 35mm film. I never got around using it. One of these days I have to got to try it to see how it works.#212 2F/ 2F - Yes there was the Zeiss Contaflex http://corsopolaris.net/supercameras/contaflex/contaflex.html that are very rare and highly prized by collectors these days, you would probably have to take out a second mortgage on your wife and kids to buy a system !#213 Isn't the Italian-made Tessina a TLR? I think it's 35mm. Also, Agfa made a remarkable looking 35mm TLR that was laid out like an SLR, if I recall.
Mark Antony
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#215 I loved Optima, but liked Portrait 160 even more, muted colour and very low contrast made it the wedding film for me (love to have a couple of rolls now).
I remember when I owned a lab I had optima and portrait paper too, Agfa had a great range of very underestimated materials.
I think they are liked more in Europe than the states?
BTW I love the colours in your shot, are they teasels?
Mark#216 Hi Mark;
I think they might be teasels. They were beside a patch of Queen Anne's Lace, so I knew enough not to call them that. (though when Queen Anne's close up, they take on a form very similar, but less dense)
Honestly though, I am (sometimes) the type to bump up contrast and saturation, especially in floral work, but I do really like the understated effect of Optima. I think it tends to draw you more into the image.
Tom
Mark Antony
Group owner
#218 Dennis too bad it's 220 (or I'd buy it from you) as 120 won't work in my Rollei.
I'll keep looking on ebay..
Just as a fun exercise what are the favourite films (any timeframe) of members here. choose 1 B&W 1 Tranny and 1 colour neg film.
I'll go first:
B&W Agfa APX 100
Tranny Fuji Provia 400X
Colour neg Agfa portrait 160
Mark#219 I do have 60 rolls of 120 APX100 sitting in the freezer but I am waiting for the summer to be over to put it on ebay. I am certain I can get quite a lot of money for it on ebay and I can't afford to give a good deal even to an apuger in my financial condition. So I am sorry about that.
My favorite films are Tmax 100 I guess and Kodak portrait film whatever it is called. I don't shoot transparency.
Dennis
Mark Antony
Group owner
#221 Dennis I just secured 20 Agfapan 100 in 120 from ebay (with 10 RSX 100) for about £15 incl p&p so I'm happy for now. If I can't get APX there's Rollei retro and I think fotoimpex are due to make a 'new APX' later this year...#222 If you found that deal on ebay you were very lucky. You are saying you got 30 rolls of film for less than 30 USD? That is so lucky I had to see it to believe it so I just went through a few hundred completed listings for Agfa, Agfapan, Apx, and 120 and didn't find record of even one recent agfa 100 in 120 sale. And at a dollar a roll it would have been the cheapest film by far of any that aren't competely way outdated.
Dennis
Mark Antony
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#223 I was lucky the guy had it listed under a wrong title, "A job lot of 30 film spools'
here is the item- 120283506679 I got it for £17.50 (my memory thought cheaper) the 20 Agfapan 100 were outdated by 2004 I think but seem OK and were shrink wrapped & supposedly frozen.
I'm a lucky guy
#224 Speaking of film deals, I'm down to my last 6 rolls of Agfa Optima. (the film I used in my last couple of postings) I bought 20 rolls for $20 last year. A great deal and a wonderful film. I'm at the point I'm getting a little selective about when I break it out. With careful hoarding, It will last a couple of years.
Me, I'm a lucky guy too.#225 I've been delighted with TMAX 400, and developed the first of my Type 2 film a few nights ago - it's now in for printing at my local shop. Now, I'm using DD-X all the time [instead of Rodinal]. The Type 2 TMAX is exposed at EI 1600, and I'm keen to see how it looks. Over the past 2 years, I've been experimenting with Delta 100, Acros, and FP4+. TMAX 400 might do everything for me; EI 400 in summer, EI 1600 in winter.
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