Working with flash or available light? f/4 with available light and trying to keep the shutter speed up is not an easy feat.
C'mon guys. I haven't read this much BS and speculation in a long time. Does anyone here actually take pictures?
Both. Of course, I was closer to what I understand to be your age when I did most of this
Usually using Vericololor II or III @ an EI of 160.
Some on a tripod, but just as many handheld with a short neckstrap and the left hand trigger grip.
Weddings are great crucibles of technique!
Right. So if I was walking around at an event with a potato masher and the lens stopped down to f/8 or more I can see the setup being more useful.
Most of my weddings involved both available light and some flash. Thinking back to it, I didn't have nearly as many clients who got married at night than during the day, and a lot of them took place, in whole or in part, outside or in very well lit rooms.
I think someone got hold of a bone and isn't about to release it.
80mm equipped TLRs are superb tools that many skilled users create great work with - including "for taking focus-sensitive photos of faces and upper torsos".
The type of camera barely matters, and should be the last thing that a current Rolleiflex owner worries about.
A good portrait is not about the technology, as illustrated in the earlier Julia Margaret Cameron image. Among many things, it is about the photographer’s eye, the rapport between the photographer and sitter, the light and general mood of the situation.
C'mon guys. I haven't read this much BS and speculation in a long time. Does anyone here actually take pictures?
C'mon guys. I haven't read this much BS and speculation in a long time. Does anyone here actually take pictures?
People having 8 pages of strongly uninformed opinions is apparently cheaper than a Rolleinar 2.
It would seem that the kind of rather pleasingly visceral portraits that Rolleinars produce (owing to shortening the focal length) are apparently mortally offensive to the terribly delicate sensibilities of camera clubbing hobbyists.
Artificial light at indoor events is rarely flattering, some flash improves things a bit.
Hi,
I want to get more experience with portrait photography. Still no Pentax 67, but I have a beautiful Rolleiflex 3.5F with Rolleinar 1 and 2.
I have a Rick Oleson spilt screen ground glass in my Rolleiflex.
I lean on the coupled lichtmeter (yes I know....). I also use only natural light.
In some pictures I made, if found it hard to focus, and some portraits are slightly out of focus, maybe due to too open aperture, but don't know for sure.
Anyhow, tips and tricks are welcome!
Thanks in advance!
My great great great grandfather, no doubt made on something more basic than a TLR. Square format though.
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100% agree
Hi. I use a Rollei also, and with a Rick Oleson screen. Three things that will help: First, replace the mirror. There's a guy on eBay selling them. Not expensive, easy to do. Secondly, keep a small flashlight in your bag and have your subject shine it at the viewing lens. Once you're focused in keep the taking aperture at 5.6 or 8. You'll have sufficient depth of field. Third, use a tripod.
Thanks! Do you have the splitscreen, or the microprism? I don't now witch one is better fot focusing when taking portraits. I have the splitscreen now.
Ow, and what is the idea with the flashlight? I don't understand this part...
flashlight is normal flashlight that you keep it in the house. Typically when the light is dim its difficult to focus on ground glass then you shine a bit on the subject face...
I use continuous video light
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