Rolleiflex lens test link.

[leonard_robertson]

All the recent Rollei posts, especially Mike Kovacs wonderful Ontario

photos, sent me looking in my Bookmarks for this link:

http://www.hevanet.com/cperez/test/fourcameras.html I'm going to

continue using my beloved Mamiyaflex C and C2, but I will admit I dug

out my Rolliecord with f3.5 Xenar. No doubt I'll have to run a roll

through it. Maybe that will keep me happy until a $50 garage sale

Rolleiflex turns up. "60 Minutes" Sunday night did an segment on Bob

Dylan (or tried to; he isn't a very chatty person). There was a very

brief clip of a press photographer using a TLR (probably a Rollei, but

no way to be sure). It looked to me like he was bringing the camera up

to his eye to use the sportfinder. He was in a crowd, so that was

probably the natural way to shoot. I was using my C2 yesterday in a

junkyard and found myself using the sportfinder every shot.

[Andrew in Austin]

Taking grab shots, that are zone focused are just as acceptable with a TLR, as it would be with any other camera. I'm surprise more folks don't mention this technique.

[michaelging]

Leonard , that is a interesting article,and having shot photos with both the Hassy and the Rollei ,I think their conclusions are right on. You can understand looking at the resolution charts why the old saying of F8 and be there, holds.

[jorn ake]

I for one did not understand sports finders, until I used a Rolleicord and realized that the sports finder uses a mirror to look at the ground glass image. That makes much more sense to me than the Yashica or other TLR sportsfinders.

 

The Rollei thing on this list is great fun. Square is square.

[david_m]

Those tests while interesting mean little. The testers made the common mistake of only testing one example of each camera. This error has been repeated over and over and invalid conclusions drawn. One could easily have found the same variations between four examples of the same make and model.

[tito sobrinho]

I would agree with David M!

 

Jorn, you must have an older Rolleicord II with a lever that rises a large mirror. This system was also used from the first Rolleiflex Automat of 1937, until the Rolleiflex X was unvailed in 1949, which uses a smaller mirror for focusing and with a repositioning of your eye, you would see the sports finder field of view.

 

The Rolleicord I uses the direct sports finder as we know it today. Interestingly enough is, that all recent Rolleicords including the last one, the Vb, doesn't have the little mirror for focusing and therefore, follows the other TLR. Trivia: The parallax correction on the ground glass was introduced with the first Rolleicord of 1933 a feature acquired on the Automat Rolleiflex of 1937.

[thanz]

that's it, I'm smashng my H'blad peice of cr@p! :-)