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There has been much written on this subject over the past 50 or 60 years, just Google it and you will find dozens of articles on the subject, some highly technical. The Great Planar vs Zenotar & Tessar vs Xenar debate, or "Much Ado about Nothing". A nice camera to get started with TLR photography, with an easy price. About EX++ condition for the body and EX+ condition for the lenses. It’s not for collecting but will still take nice photos and is more of an entry level user camera, which is reflected in its low price. There is no light meter on this one. It includes a nice original ERC case with neck strap and original lens cap. lt has a few signs of use/age but is still a nice camera, see the photos below. Shutter, film advance and focusing are all working great. It has quite a few signs of previous usage but is in quite decent cosmetic condition. Ī quite usable 3.5T, Type 1 that has just been CLA’d in March 2016. Rollei expert Alex Pearlman remarks that the Tessar on the Rolleiflex T utilizes Lanthanum glass for improved resolution and color correction. Synchro-Compur MXV shutter 1/500 to 1, B. 75mm Tessar 3.5 lens or Opton 75/3.5 lens. Probably worth a try! The nice thing with the baby rolleiflexes is that you don't really need to care about frame number markings on the backing paper being correct as long as you get the start of the film in the right position since they have automatic frame spacing.Īnother thing I've seen people do is find a junk 120 box camera or folder and glue an xacto blade inside at the right position, then just wind a roll of film through it.Serial # 2100000-2199999 from 1958-66. The cigar cutter thing sounds maybe viable. I think the guy who 3D prints it has weird spools that need the film slightly wider than normal.įilm For Classics also sells 127 rolls of a bunch of different films, but they also cut down from 120 and repack, and it's really expensive, like $20+ per roll. I tried using this thing but it doesn't work for me because it cuts the film to the wrong width and it won't fit on the spools. And the camera (at least my pre-war one) is pretty picky about the size of the spools. You can always cut down 120 rolls but I've had bad luck with it, none of the cutting jigs seem to get the width right so it never fits the spools very well. I'm rationing my last roll of bulk 46mm Portra 160, I have no idea where to get more of that. I bought a couple of bricks of Efke 100 back when they still made that, the film itself has all gone bad but I use the spools and backing paper to re-roll the HP5+ which isn't that hard if you have a dark room and a flat surface. I mostly shoot b&w lately, every year Ilford does a bulk run of odd sizes and you can get 50 feet of fresh bulk HP5+.
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The full size one feels too bulky by comparison. I love using mine and I've done a lot of good stuff with it.
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I ran into a super old guy outside an old folks home who got really excited when he saw it, told me how he used them when he was a pro photographer in the 50s. It's such an interesting concept and I'd love to see it in action.Īw i'm glad! I don't think there is a huge community around them, I guess people like that they're small and cute but don't want to deal with 127 film? At least around here (SF) I don't think I've seen anyone else using one in the wild and the local photo store considers me the "127 guy." There's a few people and some discussion on flickr about them but it's pretty dead.
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I've said this at least once before in the past, but definitely try to shoot some Super Slides and project them. By shooting square format, they can provide the absolute highest quality slides that will still work in standard 35mm projectors. These TLRs were designed to take advantage of this fact. For 35mm slide projectors to allow for the rectangular frame to be displayed in both horizontal and vertical orientation, there had to be extra unused room on either the top and bottom or the sides of the frame: a 36x36mm square. The historical reason why 127 film was revived for these tiny TLRs was a trend called "super slides". TLRs already have great shelf appeal and the cute factor of 4x4 takes it to the next level. I didn't understand the appeal of these 4x4 TLRs (why shoot a dead film format?) until I saw this photo of a Yashica 44 next to a YashicaMat.