Thankful for Rolleiflex

[david_l3]

<p>On Monday this week my wife and I walked around the bay estuaries at Galveston Island State Park. I took my mid 1950's Rolleiflex Automat, with Tessar 75mm f3.5 lens, and loaded with a roll of Fuji Acros 100 film. Enjoy your Thanksgiving everyone in the US. </p><div></div>

[david_l3]

<p>A boardwalk across an estuary.</p><div></div>

[david_l3]

<p>Boundary between water and land.</p><div></div>

[david_l3]

<p>Crab parts</p><div></div>

[david_l3]

<p>late day, low sun</p><div></div>

[chuck_foreman1]

Nice photos. Good to see the wetlands are surviving. Do oyu eat Crab down there? I liked the "parts" photo. It shows the wood nicely. The immitable Tessar on these Standards are fine lenses and when coupled to Acros you've go a nice match. That is something to be Thankful for!!

[rick_drawbridge]

<p>Great location, <strong>David</strong>, and excellent images from a sharp old Tessar. I really like "Boardwalk" and "Salt Marsh". While I love the very full tonal range that Acros delivers, I've taken to fitting an orange filter when using it for landscapes. It just produces a little more "Oomph"! Please post some more when you get the chance.</p>

[starvy]

<p>I have one from ten years earlier, uncoated Xenar 3.5 lens. I tend to shoot mostly black and white with it and the results are always nice. There is something very comforting about these cameras. I find them so terribly easy to operate and they never disappoint. I like the almost muted feel of your images.</p>

[ralf_j.]

<p>Wonderful shots, really smooth feel and compositions, I must say really impressive how the salt marsh shoreline splits the frame diagonally, really nice use of the square format. Happy Thanksgiving to you as well.</p>

[Mike Gammill]

Great shots. That Rolleiflex performs well.

[subbarayan_prasanna]

<p>lovely gray tones; you feel like touching them, similar to the impressionist paintings. sp</p>

[robert_marvin]

<p>I'm thankful for my Rolleiflex too. It's a c. 1957 2.8E (Xenotar) that I bought used in the early '60s, when I was in college. It remains my favorite camera and I use it for at least 3/4s of my photographs. IIRC it's been CLAed 4 times in the nearly 50 years I've owned it.</p>

[starshooter]

<p>G-R-E-A-T stuff. When I was a young whippersnapper in 1956 I won a 3.5 Rollei in a raffle and that was exactly the right camera for news photography. Newspaper photogs were just then unhappily (in many cases) ditching their Speed Graphics for Rolleis. Habits are hard to break. The Rollei seems so small.<br>

I used the sweet camera for years until it bit the dust. Recently I have been scanning b&w negs from my Rollie from the 1950s and 1960s and my Yashicamat photos from the 1960s and 1970s. I noticed that the photos from both cameras were equally sharp and in focus but some negs are richer and deeper. It didn't take me long to figure out the better negs were from the Rollie although the Yashicamat negs are darn nice.<br>

Every time I see a photo of a 3.5 Rollei I just breathe a deep sign. Great box.</p>

[chansonbleu]

<p>David,</p>

<p> Very nice shots. Great to see the old Tessar still performs.</p>

[tony_lockerbie]

<p>One of the loveliest, if not the lovelies cameras of all time. They just work with a smoothness that is rarely equaled. Also the precision of the lens and film registration means that the already top quality lenses just perform that much better.</p>

[Brad Cloven]

<p>I just received a few slides and scans back from my 1938 Rolleiflex Automat. I run Velvia 50 through it. Just don't point it near the light, and it's great!</p>

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<p>I love my Rollei!</p>

[steve m smith]

<p>A few days ago I cleaned up the shutter blades on my father's Rolleiflex and got it working again. According to its serial number and a list I found, it's a 1956 Automat MX EVS. I assume the Automat designation is for its automatic film start detection rollers.<br>

I need to try it out with film now.</p>