I love your ongoing presentations of analog cameras. The Rollei is a fascinating relic of great German engineering and I would love to have one in my collection. My tremendous gratitude and thanks for your wonderful videos.
@@urbanimage I'm assuming that's a reference to guitars? But essentially yes. With film photography, the image is fixed by a photosensitive material usually made with silver that reacts to the light, capturing the image on various sized grains of silver. With digital photography, an electronic sensor reacts to the light, capturing the images on identically sized pixels.
I have 2 , and the second is newer than the first. My 75mm 3.5 is a Tessar , and I have just procured the 55mm F4 Distagon Wide Rollei. The quality of these cameras are indeed superb , even maybe better than my M A and M3 Leica. The Rollei's are robust precision instruments. I am extremely thankful to have collected two of them.
I just got a mint Rolleiflex 3.5, a camera I've lusted over for years. I"ll be shooting my first roll tomorrow. It is a thing of beauty! Thanks for the overview.
I found in a cabinet my grandfather's with a Rolleiflex 3.5C rare Schneider lens from 1957/1959. I am truly outstanded on how high the build quality and functionality hold on with age. I cant wait to use it!
I enjoyed your presentation. One great feature mostly overlooked of the Rolleiflex models like yours is the small focusing lens below the sportsfinder open window. No other cameras have it. once you have taken the time to really look at it and use you will love it especially in fast situations like weddings. The negative point of 120 film unfortunately is is its limited 12 exposure length but 220 came to the rescue for the latest models. 220 does not have similar paper backing but I never experienced problems with scratches. The cranking system is great, double exposures can be done. Yes parallax problem is taken into account nicely but is not and cannot be entirely dismissed in certain cases. Always keep it in mind and you will be fine.
My favourite Rollei is the 3.5, more compact than its 2.8 brother (and of course less price), and kinda more convenient than the Rolleicord, e.g shutter cocking and film advance mechanism is linked, so impossible to do double exposure (which sometimes is annoying).
I enjoy mine. Unfortunately my light meter has not survived but everything else inc case is stunning. I use a handheld light meter. I think mine is a 3.5C but as it has nor obvious mark I am not 100% sure. Looks exactly like yours. For street photography, setting your focus distance for the scene and waiting for something worthy to shot walks in to the frame is cool. Great video and subscribed
