Going back in time with a Rolleiflex TLR...

Jobim is old hat. The more interesting
Rolleiflex reference comes from the
Serge Gainsbourg song, Negative Blues:

Où est ma petite amie ?
Elle est dans mon Rolleiflex
Je le regarde perplexe
Dois-je le foutre aux orties

Où est ma petite amie ?
Elle est dans mon Rolleiflex
C’était mon premier réflexe
J’aime la photographie

Je revois la p’tite chérie
Posant pour mon Rolleiflex
Un p’tit machin en lastex
Lui donnait un peu d’esprit

Où est ma petite amie ?
Elle est dans mon Rolleiflex
J’y ai filé des complexes
Elle a filé cette nuit

Où est ma petite amie ?
Elle est dans mon Rolleiflex
Faut connaître le contexte
Le pourquoi et le pour qui.

Just a few weeks age I've spent a few days in Barcelona fotographing with only my Rolleiflex T and Digisix lightmeter. That was really funny. For many tourists I was the second biggest attraction after the Gaudis Familia Sagrada . Two japanese young girsl asked me to have a photo with them - of course because of the camera The camera really makes a difference. People recognized me as a "pro". I am not sure that a Mamiya 7 or other MF rangefinder would have acquired that much recognition and attention. I will use my Rolleimore often as a travellers camera I guess - dispite that a Fuji GA645 or other AUTO MF camera would be faster ...

I know my remarks are out of the proper format (in more ways than one), but my best friend gets the same kinds of comments, looks, and "respect" when he shoots his 35 mm Exakta.
On the other hand, about twenty years ago, he was shooting mear Montery with his Contax II and he overheard a young swain impressing his girlfriend with his knowledge. "Look, it's a Contax: they're actually made by Yashica."

John, Mount Vernon, Virginia USA

Resoman said:

I'm just about to leave town for the weekend and, rather than leave the entire APUG community in a dither over my trivia question, I better reveal right now that the song in question is Desafinado, the bossa nova hit written by Antonio Carlos Jobim & Newton Mendonça.

The line containing the Rollei reference goes:

"Fotografei voce na minha Rolleiflex"

Do we have a Brazillian member who can come up with a translation?

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I'm not Brazilian, but babelfish says: ""I photographed you in my Rolleiflex" (It's actually "Fotografei você na minha Rolleiflex")

I get lots of looks and smiles when I take my Yashica D out.