Life isn't all bakelite and plastic

[gene m]

<p><a href="http://westfordcomp.com/classics/rolleitlr/index.html">My Rolleiflex Automat</a></p>

[Lou_Meluso]

<p>Oh Yeah! Impressive quality. You are on a roll(eiflex). Love the front view of the bench and tree.</p>

[User_502260]

<p>Is that a Dakota or a full size Ram? Do you find the LVS system more cumbersome to use or easier to use when the lighy stays the same?</p>

[subbarayan_prasanna]

<p>Wonderful snow covered tree and bench; the sofa in the dark corner exudes a warm feeling. Regards, sp.</p>

[david_l3]

<p>Excellent indeed. The FP4+ with the Xenar lens is a nice combination. </p>

[User_4525289]

<p>Wonderful, I wish to have a Rolleiflex. Very nice mechanism.<br>

P.S. Pictures are stunning. Is that new snow from the latest snowstorm?</p>

[gene m]

<p>Yes Kozma. I took the photos early this morning (2/27.)</p>

[rick_drawbridge]

<p>Ah yes, a <em>proper</em> camera....Very beautiful, Gene, both the camera and the photographs. It all makes a miserable winter look quite worthwhile...I'm drawn to the second-to-last pic, of the trees. Superb.</p>

[leicaglow]

<p>No bakelite? :(</p>

<p>Beautiful all the way around. It's the only camera I haven't owned that I've lusted after my whole life.</p>

[User_4525289]

<p>Gene, you snow looks much better than mine after last snowfall.</p>

[ralf_j.]

<p>Wonderful winter classics, a sense of snow wilderness with s soft civilization touch(benches, flamingo, interior shots). Did you have snow pants on?</p>

<p>I was taking a few shots today with a 6x9 folder with an uncoated Rodenstock Trinar along Hudson River(Bay Ridge) when I fell thigh deep in innocent looking virgin snow. No harm done though, just laughed it off.</p>

[robert lee]

<p>Nicely done.</p>

[doug grosjean]

<p>Gene, very beautiful.</p>

<p>Agreed on Rolleiflex being really special. Just something about the micrometer precision feel, and the groundglass, and the results.... I feel like an artist when I use one. It has personality, and the camera's age doesn't prevent it from producing amazing stuff.</p>

<p>I tell people that when I bought a modern 12 MP dSLR, it wasn't a step up from shooting MF film.</p>

[howardstanbury]

<p>Twelve winners from a single roll of film - great stuff!</p>

[mfophotos]

<p>I have a good user Automat, but the leather is pretty grungy, and the camera works wonderfully. I think I may get one of those leatherette kits and recover it in green leather. You can rarely go wrong with a Rollei.</p>

[gene m]

<p>" Did you have snow pants on?"</p>

<p>I photograph in the nude. It keeps people from asking me about my cameras.</p>

[john_fleetwood]

<p>Wow, me too! Then I have the photos to help me figure out where I've been.</p>

[larry h-l]

<p>Lovely pictures Gene (as always).<br>

Just a note that your camera appears to me to be an MX, not an MX-EVS. I think the EVS models had a "chain link" knob and symbol on the front of the aperture dial that "locked in" the exposure.<br>

If you engaged the EVS lock, the shutter speed dial would change if you changed the aperture or vice versa, giving equivalent exposures.</p>

 

[gene m]

<p>Serial number is 14796541. Shutter and lens opening are locked together (EVS) unless you push the iris adjusting button in while turning it. The camera<strong><em> is</em> </strong> an MX-EVS.</p>

[timwitt]

<p>Gene, Nice MX-EVS.<br>

Here is a photo of Mr. Maynard's 1953 MX to show the visual difference.<br>

<a href="http://www.photo.net/classic-cameras-forum/00UxB0">http://www.photo.net/classic-cameras-forum/00UxB0</a></p>

[patrick_mont]

<p>Nice. I want one of these cameras pretty badly.....I'm waiting to get the right deal.</p>

[djcphoto]

<p>Looks just like my MX-EVS, although I have a Tessar equipped version. I agree though, fantastic camera to use, and my images from it look almost as good as the camera itself!</p>

[bj_larsson]

<p>Very nice photos. I've been going back and forth on getting a TLR, maybe I need to start looking again :)</p>

[tony_lockerbie]

<p>Every one should have at least one Rollei in their lifetime, these things are a tactile delight....produce wonderful images too.<br>

Is it just me or does that Flamingo look more perky this winter?</p>

[larry h-l]

<p>Hey, I stand corrected.</p>

<p>Just where is the button to lock / unlock the EVS?</p>

<p>On later Rollei's (I have two "E" cameras) there is that "chain link" button that you twist sideways.</p>