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Fenman
03-06-2009, 12:35 PM
Picture for a certain fan to drool over

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e375/Exfangman/Old%20ones/Rolei28Eplanar.jpg

The sort of image 2 1/4 sq 12 on 120 it produced back in the 1950's when I was doing the rounds of Surrey and Kent on my bike sketching and brass rubbing. Developed in Microfen as far as I remember in a blacked out bathroom in my parent's house. Must have fixed it well as the negatives are all still OK fifty years on! Scanned in my Epson 4490.
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e375/Exfangman/Old%20ones/Fontgraveley.jpg
Yes - I am that old! Font Graveley on the Kent marshes circa summer 1957
Antarctican
03-06-2009, 12:37 PM
Looks to be in superb shape! And as you say, the negatives sure stood the test of time too!
Chris of Arabia
03-06-2009, 12:40 PM
I have promised myself that, one of these days, I will get myself an MF camera and will set up an enlarger again. The smell of the fix, once experienced, never quite leaves you.
Terri
03-06-2009, 12:53 PM
Oh my. A soul brother. :love:
Rolleimaniac
03-06-2009, 02:03 PM
Very nice indeed! Thank you for posting...You can always load with slide film and saddle up to that Epson. :razz:

SHOOT MORE FUJI!!!!

I would ask 'how much' but I've been placed on Bordeaux and Camera probation!

:shock:
PhotoJet
03-06-2009, 04:08 PM
OOOOOOOOO!!!! I am smitten by those cute little things! (But please do NOT tell my Hassy!) :tapedshut:
mitica100
03-07-2009, 11:45 PM
Beauty! I love the feel of the Rolleiflexes. I have a 3.5 Planar and a 3.5 Xenar, the latter in a little better shape and shooting well.
Chris of Arabia
03-08-2009, 05:10 AM
You do know that you lot have got me browsing the MF section of eBay don't you...


...and that Freestyle site is interesting too.
Fenman
03-08-2009, 07:44 AM
Glad the first posting in the "Aged" section provoked some interest. Anybody else still got their first cameras?
I still have the set of filters and manual for the Rolei as well as the bracket with a "D" handle for eye level viewing . . . These were used for action photography at the 1948 and '52 Olympics by the look of it in old films of the events as well as being the standard fare of wedding photographers before the Hassablad and Bronica took over. I found it a bit bulky when on my trips and usually carried my Zeiss Nettar (my first new camera in 1953). Again 12 on 120 and still working. Will our modern digital camaras still be OK to use in 55 years time? . . . Those cameras along with my Canon A1 are part of my life and I can't bear to clear them out, something for my executors to do when I am gone!