Is the Rolleiflex 3.5F for Landscape Photography - New Zealand
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- The Rolleiflex is amazing for so many reasons but is it a good option for Landscape Photography or just suited for Portraits and Street. While New Zealand is still under heavy lockdown we head out to a local spot called Awhitu - South West Auckland.
We look at how the Rolleiflex can work as a Landscape option but also why it's great to simplify and just connect with your landscape or subject shooting film.
This is the first of many film field tests. So stay tuned.
My Kit:
Fujifilm X-T4 Body
Fujifilm XF 18mm 1.4
Fujifilm XF 60mm 2.4
Fujifilm 50-140mm
Zoom H5 Recorder
Gorrilapod 3K
Rolleiflex 3.5F Type 4
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Leave it Alone - Underbelly
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I have the K4a, the predecessor to the 3.5F. They are absolutely for landscape photography, and there is much to be said for a camera with a fixed ' normal ' lens. The freedom it affords the photographer from carrying tons of heavy lenses that hardly ever get used, helps with strong compositions. The photographs were lovely, well done.
The K4a is a great camera - love rolleis! I totally agree. Total freedom and simplicity. Extemely enjoyable. Thanks for the insight :)
This video has a very therapeutic vibe. Some minimalist compositions but very strong in their own right. You've got a real good eye. Stay inspired and keep going \m/
Enjoyed this mate. I recently acquired two Rolleiflex 3.5f's for the very reasons you have mentioned, it's like therapy for me in this transient crazy digital world. Looking forward to more of your vids. Gary in very rainy England.....now there's a surprise!
Thanks for connecting Gary! Appreciate the feedback.
I'd love to pick up another unit - mine is in perfect condition, kinda want a user copy to. Yeah it was one of the more enjoyable sessions I have had lately especially with the lockdowns we are experiencing...day 97 I think. Great to get out and just shoot! Appreciate your comments and lets hope the borders open as I'd like to get back to the UK to see family and photography a few locations. Have a great week!
Very happy to subscribe mate. You have a great eye for compo. I use the very same camera but shoot largely black and white minimalist-hence I loved the first Island image. By way of an aside it was totally refreshing to see a presentation by someone who doesn't wear his hat backwards or bang on about "making images". And not even a skerrick of the "Zen" of film photography. All the best with this channel. I look forward to more videos mate..
Thanks Neville, your feedback is very reassuring. Really enjoying your work on instagram, and don't worry there will be plenty of B&W photography. Have an excellent start to 2022 and look forward to talking more. Cheers Bernie
Hey Bernie, no worries mate. I'll be posting black and white film photographs on IG from time to time. Once Spring gets here, footy will take over my IG account. It's a spring to early Fall game up here. Happy 2022 to you too mate.
I had no idea you had a channel on here mate. Awesome content. Beautiful shots from the Rollei, stunning detail and colours!
Thanks mate 👌 yeah an enjoyable personal project 😊. Looking forward to a catch up at NZIPP
Great pictures! I've started to search for my own Rolleiflex because of this video 🙂
12:26 Your comment about not bringing the Hasselblad left me thinking why not just drum scan the negative and crop to your liking? It's 120 film so the resolution is amazing and perfect for croping.
Great to see a new perspective on a area I know well ......
Thanks Tony! It's a fantastic area. Will return to photography the windswept trees. I have a few spots to go back to. Thanks for watching
@@bernieshore Spent lot of time out Hamiltons gap and looking at those wind swept trees and the gullies ........parking spots not easy :)
yes, great point at 8:10 and also from reading Rollieflex books the "safety" of the viewing lens, what I mean is the dof of the viewing lens is SMALLER than that of the taking lens, so if it is reasonable in the viewer, you HAVE it for sure on film!! (greater lattitude), so there is this fact to consider as well, when looking at tlr's vs. Slr's, also the fact the view is NEVER cut off so you can check after if the composition changed, also as you CAN see without cocking the shutter, you can compose and prepare, with the shutter un-cocked, as per the previous comment, so this locks the shutter.
Loved this mate, thanks for this. I've been away from NZ for a few years now and this was great to see. I think the 6x6 worked well for this :)
Thanks mate! Its an amazing place hoping to get back to the South Island now lockdowns are over. Fingers crossed.
Of course you can do landscape with the Rolleiflex - when it's the only camera you have. I personally think that a more rectangular format is better for landscape. I have converted a couple of 100 years old Kodak 3-A cameras to take pictures on 120 film in a 6x14cm format, these are the ones I mostly use for landscapes, sometimes also a 6x9 Moskva 5 or a 4,5x6 Fuji GS645 pro. Very, very rarely the Rolleiflex - however a TLR is actually my number one street photography camera.
Very true, use what you have. I'm waiting on a 6x12 back for my 4x5 camera. Hope to do some vids with it soon. Thanks for sharing :)
There is advantage in shooting landscapes with a square format. You have the option to crop to a landscape format if you like with a choice of post shoot composition by vertical pan and scan. And square photos of landscapes look beautiful if shot by a photographer with artistic vision. Kenna is a good example of it among others. If anything, a TLR is a cumbersome camera for street photography that takes more effort to use in a fast paced situation than a nimble RF or SLR camera.
Enjoyed this Bernie, nice to see the Rollei. I will never part with my 2.8f
Thanks Bill, appreciate the feedback. Yeah always a pleasure getting the rollei out. Oh nice - was very tempted to get a 2.8F but opportunity came at me for the 3.5F. Thanks for connecting and I hope you follow along. Have a great week
Awesome camera! The 3.5 planar is good glass, razor sharp. Very happy to have one in my possession.
16:00 Very nice! Where exactly did you set the focus here?
Nice Video. Your ground grass looks so bright. My Yashica 124g mat looks nothing like that..
Thanks for the feedback Kenny. Oh the ground glass is excellent. Magicflex in Germany put an ultra bright screen in, incredible. The Yeshiva 124G is an awesome camera, wasn't lucky enough to pick one up but I do have a Yashica LM that goes ok. Thanks for connecting and I hope you follow along. Have a great week
Nice work Bernie
Thanks Jeffrey! Appreciate the kind works. Hope you had an awesome weekend.
Nice photos
Thanks heaps! pretty happy to get a few keepers in a morning. Thanks for connecting
amazing video, the focusing screen is the original? I need to change my from the 3.5c I was checking for a brightness more
Great job buddy
Thanks 👍 appreciate your feedback
hello , can you please answer , what type of cable release do you use ? Thank you .
Fantastic! Good luck with your channel!
Appreciate the feedback, good to finally start. Thanks for watching and subscribing Eric.
Fan ho camera
Yeah its a great camera! Hope to hear from you in my future video. :)
The reason Rollie never made a tele - version is because they said you could just enlarge the photograph.
They did though, with a 135mm Sonnar lens. Beloved by portrait photographers but rare and v. expensive now.
Some amazing shots, I love pro400h wish it wasn't so scarce.
Thanks :) was an excellent morning. Oh so do I, shame Pro400H has been discontinued. Did you get out shooting this weekend?
@@bernieshore I did, lots of snow here I ran around with the mamiya 645 and some hp5, should be some good ones.
great video, loved a review, but of a cameras suitabillity for this genre of photography!, and also as an explination to everyone, that are not Rollieflex afficianado's: the reason he does not crank the film advance straight after taking a shot is simple, some Rollieflex/Rolliechords DON'T have any kind of shutter button lock!, this process is the 'work around', as the shutter can't fire, if it is already de-cocked!
this model, does have a shutter button lock, however; so he could lock the button, another reason to be CAREFULL is that there is NO darkslide, like in say a hasselblad 500c\m, Rollieflex SL2000f/3000f (35 mm format), mamiya press 6x9 or RB/RZ67 as this acts as a film safety, as well as on some of these cameras an interlock prevents shutter release if these magasines have the slide in, a form of shutter locking. (and even if the button got pressed, on most cameras, this does not necisarily mean a "wasted frame", as with magasine cameras, cocking can occur with the back REMOVED, as in hasselblad technique, for multi-exposing, and syncing of shutter/mirror mechanics ( also relevent to mamiya RB/Z 67 cameras)).
Appreciate your comment! Hope you enjoy future videos Andy
Good stuff Bernie! Loved the video!!
Cheers Mate! it's been great really loving the Rollei again.
Great work. I love the square.
Thanks so much, I have just had some Hasselblad 500cm images developed for another video. I hope you follow along as it would be great to hear what you think of my next videos. Have a great weekend, Bernie
Nice video and photos! Truth tell, I have a Rollei. I sure miss my Mamiyaflex c series with various lenses. Sure, it's heavy, but worth it, if one is younger and stronger. I think carrying Rollei while on tripod, bad idea. Back not that strong!
Rolleiflex is perflectly fine for landscape, in the same way using wide angle lens for fashion shoot or telephoto lens for street photography: you just need to know where to frame. Of course, sometimes 6x6 landscape composition is tricky. In some situation, I definitely prefer a normal wide angle lens, or even panoramic format like X-Pan.
Wonderful photo at minute 17.23!
Provia 400 is beautiful film.