Rolleiflex Wide?
When hanging from a neck strap a Rolleiflex Wide, along with a Rolleiflex, and a Rolleiflex Tele worn at the same time provides a magnificent display of camera bling!
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It's like saying "I'm thinking of getting a 24mm lens for my Nikon F3, do you think a 28mm will work?"[/url], on Flickr
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... Another trick for shooting candid, street type shots is to take the finder off, stick it in your pocket an use it like a TLR. Hold it at chest or waist level, point at or near your subject matter, center the bubble and then trip the shutter. No noise and you're not looking at your subject so they don't have a clue. Of course you'll have to use a film like HP5+/THY2 so you have enough shutter speed and aperture to play the DOF game. If you can shoot at around f11 and have a speed of 1/60th or higher you'll be king of the sidewalk. Just watch your red DOF guide bars and you're all set. A very simple, but very capable camera. JW
I'm gonna try that. Thanks for the tip.
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One of the main reasons I bought mine. I had a 50mm Distagon for some wide shots when I shot weddings and had a heck of a time with distortion on some shots. The SWC was a dream compared to the 50mm, but like the 50mm, it was only used for certain settings. Another trick for shooting candid, street type shots is to take the finder off, stick it in your pocket an use it like a TLR. Hold it at chest or waist level, point at or near your subject matter, center the bubble and then trip the shutter. No noise and you're not looking at your subject so they don't have a clue. Of course you'll have to use a film like HP5+/THY2 so you have enough shutter speed and aperture to play the DOF game. If you can shoot at around f11 and have a speed of 1/60th or higher you'll be king of the sidewalk. Just watch your red DOF guide bars and you're all set. A very simple, but very capable camera. JW
The problem with shooting that way is that you get photographs of the top of your shoes in the bottom on the photograph!
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The problem with shooting that way is that you get photographs of the top of your shoes in the bottom on the photograph!
I've used a SWC upside down for landscape work. Ordinarily the lens barrel blocks the bottom of the viewfinder so the critical foreground (maybe with tips of shoes) can't be composed confidently. Upside down the viewfinder uncertainty is transferred to sky or cloud where there is more room for error.
If you hang upside down by your legs from a tree branch, then you do not have to invert the camera.
Enough is enough! The ape-hanger method does not work with a Hasselblad SWC. If I'm upside down in a tree and monkeying around with a camera I'd need one where I can chimp the screen on the back.
The Hasselblad SWC's Biogon is one of the finest Architectural lenses ever - sharp to the corners, even and rectilinear. The gripes listed above re composing and focusing are valid. My 50mm Distagons, both early (silver) and late (black) with 'floating element' are poor, with resolution eclipsed by inexpensive consumer lenses for 35mm or full-frame digital.
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