Calling all Rolleiflex TLR owners or previous Rolleiflex TLR owners

[Rob MacKillop]

Apologies once again. I had one of 'those' days. I recorded a CD for a ukulele book to be published in a month. The studio guy was playing guitar accompaniment to my uke playing. He kept making mistakes, so we did a lot of retakes. When I got home (after getting soaked in the rain) he phoned me to say he had forgotten to put my microphone on...all we have is his guitar playing.

Must calm down...

 

[Austin O'Hara]

Apologies once again. I had one of 'those' days.

No problem and really sorry to hear about the microphone.
I really like Michael Freeman's books and just in case I have incorrectly commented his work, I will quote what he said.

In general it, is the most difficult format to work with, and most design strategies for a square frame are concerned with escaping the tyranny of its perfect equilibrium

Following a few paragraphs he continues

It is fairly normal for photographers who work consistently with a square format camera to imagine a vertical or horizontal direction to the picture, and to crop the resulting image later.

It's a beautiful book and I hope to spend more time studying it.

 

[Brian Moore]

Rob,...who will publish the book? And is it at beginner level? (I have a feeling it's not, but thought I'd ask.)

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I don't shoot square images that often but I don't recall ever cropping any into a rectangle. Why shoot square...?

 

[Rob MacKillop]

I don't want to hijack this thread, Brian. Suffice to say, it's for kids, easy stuff, and I'll let you know when it's out, in a more appropriate part of this forum.

 

[Brian Moore]

Quite right, Rob. I should have sent a PM.

 

[Steve Boykin]

I don't want to hijack this thread, Brian. Suffice to say, it's for kids, easy stuff, and I'll let you know when it's out, in a more appropriate part of this forum.

Rob,

Could you let me know also.

Thanks!!

SB

 

[Rob MacKillop]

I'll start a thread when the time comes!

 

[Andy Boardman]

Love Rollieflex's the quality is good & they do hold prices, I hve one tooked away somewhere, must dig it out again & load some Ilford in it BUT the Mamiya C330 etc are very good to, very cheap & have interchangable lenses so great value for a full MF kit at cheap as chips prices.