#Rolleiflex 2.8 photographer series#

It wouldвЂ™ve been amazing to see what he captured during his time there, in an age so far removed from ours. I donвЂ™t think we ever found the negatives from his time in China. On the layover in Hong Kong, he bought this camera to document life in China. My grandfather was an ophthalmologist вЂ“ an eye doctor вЂ“ and was asked to come to visit China and lecture at schools there in the вЂ™50s. It was his fatherвЂ™s camera, my grandfatherвЂ™s, bought in 1955 in Hong Kong.

Now, this particular Rolleiflex was my dadвЂ™s but he was not the one who originally bought it. rollei 2.8D New Rollei 3 Planar 97.so-Your Rollei LMS l New Rolleiflex. This camera is the Xenotar-equipped version, so itвЂ™s вЂcheaperвЂ™ but still provides amazing results. 12th International Exhibition of Pictorial Photography', Fotoklub Zagreb, Zagreb. The lenses came in 2 varieties: the extremely expensive 80mm Carl Zeiss Planar f/2.8, and the slightly less expensive 80mm Schneider-Kreuznach Xenotar f/2.8. Or in a historic Mies van der Rohe tower condo along Lake Shore Drive, in search of a historic hallway where I. When I'm in Chicago, you're likely to find me in a bookstore, a coffee shop, a neighborhood bar, an art gallery, or a camera shop.

#Rolleiflex 2.8 photographer series#

The 2.8 series was named after the very fast f/2.8 lenses that they used, premium technology at the time. Rolleiflex 2.8F Type 1 (1960-1966), Planar 80mm f2,8 - Ilford FP4+125ASA. It was, to be specific, a Rolleiflex 2.8D вЂ“ the fourth revision of the line, made in 1955. Properly functioning Rolleiflex 2.8f cameras generally sell for between 900 and 1,500, with finer examples commanding a premium. The first Rolleiflex was introduced in 1929, but the model my dad had was from the 2.8 line that they introduced in 1949. Fun, but not nearly comparable to a proper Rolleiflex. I already had a TLR, a Yashica-A camera I thrifted years ago, but that was a low-priced budget model.

This viewing lens matches the taking lens, so what you see in the finder will be a fairly realistic view of the image that you will capture. The top of the camera flips open to reveal a waist-level finder, which uses a mirror to show you the scene through the viewing lens. This camera design has 2 lenses on the front, the upper one being the viewing lens and the lower one being the taking lens. Their most famous series of cameras was the Rolleiflex, a series of high-end TLR (Twin-Lens Reflex) cameras that popularized the TLR design for the mass-market. Rollei was a German manufacturer of cameras founded in 1920 by Paul Franke and Reinhold Heidecke.