TLR Users

[heart of stone]

Hello to all, just got my first tlr, an autocord. I hope I look as good as it does at 45. Oh wait, I've already been there, a long time ago. Hopefully I'll get some time to put a roll through it in the next couple of days to see how well it works. Fell in love with the sq. format shooting my isolette. Ken

 

[dpurdy]

Uh Oh. The TLR group membership is about to be overtaken by the naked girl picture group. Of course they unfairly inflate their membership by making you join to look at the naked girls. Only 37 messages so I guess there is little to say about it.
Just joking.
You know I belong to the naked picture group too.
Dennis

 

[Toffle]

Funny... I won't join... simply because I have to join.

And welcome to Ken... we accept all comers here...

 

[heart of stone]

OK, I sacrificed the first roll loading it and not really knowing what I was doing or exactly how the camera worked. The view finder, is a little dim. I took it off and tried cleaning it, but no noticable difference. Is there a cost effective way to remedy this? Other than that, the shutter speeds seem to be good and everything worked smoothly. The negs look properly exposed. I guess the real test will be this weekend when I try printing a couple of them. Ken

 

[Irrev.Rev.]

Hey!
Inherited F & H Braunschweig R'cord w/CZJ Triotar 1:3.5 Taking and Heidoscop 1:3.2 viewing; came with 35MM adaptive hardware! Have also just acquired Yashica TLR which was the first camera, (1963)(borrowed!) I ever used (developed, printed). Have just finished first roll of CN 400 and await results. Who says " you can't go home again"? I think I lost a frame or two trying to load the 120; hey, ...it's been 40 years!!
PJ
P.S. The 35MM hardware fits the Yash'mat 124!! How's that for a coincodink??

 

[Irrev.Rev.]

Whooops! The Rolleicord has an interchangeable back w/ modified pressure plate and insertable 35MM mask. Has anyone replicated hardware for the Y'ashmat?
PJ

 

[Larry.Manuel]

My Rolleicord accumulation is beginning to look like a collection. The triggering event was a 1954-54 Rollieflex 3.5, purchased about 16 months ago. My first Rolleicord is a mint Vb, then a good Va. I took a hankering for an Art Deco [from a Canadian in Taiwan] after seeing one on Harry Fleenor's site. I liked it so much, I bought another [in the mail]. The Art Deco lens is astoundingly sharp. Amazing really. It's uncoated, so sunlight falling on the glass causes serious flare every time. A hood made of a 35 mm film can works fine.

I was able to transplant the mirror and Maxwell screen from my Rolleiflex into the Art Deco, and now the viewing screen is ridiculously bright for a 75 year old camera. Also, I was able to synchronize the focus between taking and viewing lenses. The Maxwell screen is thicker than the ground glass.

Good luck to all.

 

[Banta]

TLR:

Yashica 124

Use:

Learning

 

[Toffle]

Update re Rollei CLA in Canada? Originally posted Sept. 3.
I finally picked up my 3.5f from Windsor Photo Outfitters http://photooutfitters.ca/
While it took somewhat longer than anticipated to have my CLA completed, I am more than happy with the work, and the price. Adrian Harte, the owner, takes a real personal interest in his customers and their gear. He did a wonderful job cleaning up my Rollei. In addition to realigning the shutter/aperture lingage, cleaning the shutter and all glass, resetting the focus rails (and the focus) etc., he worked some magic on the appearance of my lovely camera.

I went into this with a little trepidation, but I must say that in the end, I am more than pleased with the end result.

(and now my baby is back home... )

 

[benjiboy]

I saw a mint 3.5 F with a Planar in the window of a of a local camera shop yesterday when I was on my way to an important appointment, I hadn't the time to stop, by the time I got back ninety minuites later it had been sold, dam.

 

[dpurdy]

I walk twice a week past an analog photo finishing shop with used gear and they have a Rollei Tele that I look at from the street through the window every time I go by. I think the smudge on the window there is from my nose.
Dennis

 

[edgie48033]

Just joined today i have old yashica-mat with yashinon lens and plenty of film, glad i found this group will try to upload a few shots of the local area soon.

 

[Mark Antony]

Welcome edgie I look forward to seeing what you can do with your TLR. I have been busy with a project, I would upload some images but they are trichromes and hybrid, I don't want to annoy anyone...

 

[Daniel Jackson]

Hello, all; 'nother Yashicamat 124 user here.
PSA: if you have a Yashicamat and haven't glued down your flash selector yet, please do so. I neglected to check it last time I did a long exposure, and I'm still not 100% sure I've go the shutter working properly...

 

[samnor]

Hi to all members. Just joined APUG and saw your group. I have an Mamiya C220 with 80mm. I bought it about 5 years ago from a pawn shop, loaded it with Tri X 400 and took a couple of shots with it. Decided that I didn't have a clue how to use it, so I put it in a storage shed. About a month ago I took it out and read the manual I got online. I shot off the remaining frames on the original roll, Tri X 400. There were 8 shots left. A couple of them are in my portfolio. The results were nice enough to make me think about a more modern medium format. Oh, I guess I can post a sample to the group. I'll try that. Cheers, Sam

 

[dpurdy]

Regarding the previous talk of shooting 220 film in a Rollei with no 220 switch. (It is only interesting if you have some reason to shoot 220.. like you own a bunch of it already and want to shoot it in your Rollei.)

Because a 220 roll has tape on both ends of the film it is possible to reload it back in the camera after you have wound it to the end. So what you can do is put in the 220 roll and shoot the first 12 frames, at which point the camera will wind it all the way off. Take the roll out of the camera and put it back in the bottom like a fresh roll and start it on a take up spool like normal and close the camera up and shoot 12 frames again. Then the camera will roll the film off again. Now you have 24 frames exposed on the 220 roll. If you are taking it to a lab for processing you just tell them what you did so they don't think the roll is unexposed... as it will be back at the beginning again.

I tried it and it works.

If you have a T or GX or Rolleicord and don't have the auto feeler roller and you need to line up an arrow with a red dot. The arrow should be exactly 7 inches from the end of the paper at the end of the roll. So carry a pencil and make a mark before restarting.

Dennis

 

[davidprocter]

Hello everyone. I have A lovely rollei 2.8F which has got me back into dreaming about photography as well as shooting a roll or two. I'm sure to have many questions.

 

[gatewaycityca]

I'm new to the APUG website, and I just found this group. I have a Yashica A, and it's probably one of my favorite film cameras now!

I was just curious, is there anyone here in southern California? I don't know hardly anyone around here that is interested in photography, and very few people interested in film photography. So it would be nice to meet more local people that were interested in this.

 

[Ian Grant]

Well in the last 10 days I've shot my first serious rolls of 120 with a TLR since my Mamiya C33 & C3 were stolen in the early 80's, I was using the Yashica 124 I bought off APUG earlier in the year.

It's amazing how you can instinctively shoot, compose & frame to the square format, all the rolls of film are processed and look excellent, lack of a darkroom or scanner (here in Turkey) mean it will be a few months until I see a print, but the negatives are very sharp. (I can read a neg better than a contact print).

Now I look forward to using my Rolleiflex when I'm next in the UK, but meanwhile I'll begin to use the Yashica a lot more.

Ian

 

[Rolleiflexible]

Gate, there is a thriving world of
photography in LA -- Dave Naz,
Todd Hido, Renée Jacobs, Eric
Kroll, Sita Mae Edwards, Brooks
Ayola, jeez I don't live there and
I could rattle off a dozen names
without trying. What sort of
stuff are you shooting? Sanders

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

Hi all. Recent arrival into the TLR fold, with a Rollei 2.8 E. Just getting the hang of things with it and liking it a lot for portrait work - the always-on viewing is great for catching expressions. Now I'm finding myself wanting a Tele-Rollei for better portrait shooting.

 

[dpurdy]

There is definitely something to be said for shooting portraits with a #1 or #2 Rolleinar. You get an intimate feel with an up close perspective and you can use that perspective to your advantage.
Welcome to the TLR fold.
Dennis

 

[dpurdy]

Posting pics to the group..
I have made a few attempts at posting images to the group gallery and for some reason the images get really soft and mushy in the translation. I post the same pics to the forum gallery and they don't lose sharpness like they do with the group galleries. Anybody have a handle on how to size an image for best quality in group posting?
Dennis

 

[Rolleiflexible]

Scott, congratulations on the new E.
Dennis will disagree but I think the
E is the best of the Rolleiflex models.
I shoot a 3.5E and my wife shoots a
2.8E -- they're both great. Sanders

 

[dpurdy]

I don't disagree. I just prefer the prism.. which won't go on the E. I think pretty much Rollei has maintained the same quality since it started using Xenotars and Planars. I was hoping there would be a great difference between the FX HFT coated Planar and the F Xenotar but now that I have used them both quite a bit I find that if there is a difference it is so slight that the slightest user error would cancel the advantage. I am not sure my favorite Rollei wouldn't be the 2.8C if not for that prism issue. The E is on top of the hill just like the rest.
Dennis