Not everything is as big and boxy as an RB. The Rolleiflex is elegant and portable and designed to work well in the hand. Hasselblad as well. It clearly was intended to have style and be more than a utilitarian studio box.
Cool is whatever someone thinks it is. Cool to one is uncool to another. And that's cool.I agree. Medium format cameras were (mostly) studio workhorses. Cool rarely entered the equation, they just had to do what was expected of them. Cool is something you pull out of your pocket and grab the shot - only my 120 folders fit that description. Cool is not carrying something that weighs the same as a small child and belongs on a hefty tripod.
cool is for teenage hipsters not adults
Who did they learn it from? "Cool" has been used that way for over half a century.
I can't even understand teenagers these days. Their response to this thread would be along the lines of:
"y u evn want a flim camera brrah? ma NOKIA is totez dopez brah 40 megaapixlz man"
It gets worse. I've been told that school districts have now ceased teaching students how to write. Meaning handwritten cursive. They are now only being taught simple block letters. Keyboards are the brave new world. At least until gestures render those obsolete by next weekend.
That's not a joke, either. My wife recently told of a supervisor at her job who handed a list of handwritten instructions to a young employee. The exasperated response was, "I can't read that!" And it's not because that young employee was illiterate.
If we are not careful, technology will end up regressing us all back into the primordial soup from whence we sprang...
Ken
word yoWord mutha’s….
My Nikons are ill, 4x5 is Gangsta, Hasselblads are Sick and my M3?.......I ain’t mad at it Yo…
So 'cool' was uncool...Yeah, 'cool' was definitely out of vogue when I was a teenager.
I can't even understand teenagers these days. Their response to this thread would be along the lines of:
"y u evn want a flim camera brrah? ma NOKIA is totez dopez brah 40 megaapixlz man"
Having worked with medium format cameras since the seventies, it's challenging to conceive of a large, heavy, squarish optical device design as cool. My fear is people are really asking, 'how does this camera look on me' as opposed to 'how do I carry this around to make pictures smaller cameras can't manage'. As far as jewellery goes, it takes real commitment to carry, say, an RB67 round in the hope of a chance shot, even if people think it looks nice slung on their hip. I admire such cojones, without any wish to go in that direction personally.
If you love nice big negatives, and want to adopt them as a standard, get the lightest medium format camera you can find and leave cool for people who don't mind grooves in their shoulder.
Dawg, droppin it like it's hot...
I think this camera which I am using right now in the scene before you is pretty "cool"...
Haha my friend loves his Speed Graphic with a 6x9 roll film holder. Funny he was just talking to me about it when I mentioned my Texas Leica on the way. I definitely like a Graflex, a 4x5 Speed Graphic would be an awesome camera to add to my collection.I have others, but the coolest must be the 6x9 Graflex SLR with roll-film holder and 127mm Ektar. It's in great working condition and sure draws lots of looks.
Texas Leicas are lighter weight than Nikon F4, F5 and Canon EOS3.
Texsport
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