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My Rolleiflex Journey
So after years and years of prevaricating I have taken the plunge an purchased a Rolleiflex Twin Lens Camera
And So The Journey Begins!
For many years I have been an admirer of the work of Lee Miller and my favourite photographer Vivian Maier both of whom used twin lens Rolleiflex cameras. In my delusion the only thing holding me back from creating comparable images was the fact that I did not own a twin Lens Rolleiflex.
Sometimes its easier to hide behind a simple reason than take a leap of faith only to confirm you are not in the same league as these two amazing photographers.
So I contacted a friend who is well known as a lover of "old" style photography and is generally a go to person for people who want to trade in old photography equipment, and asked him to give me a shout if a Rolleiflex came his way.
Several months past and then a text landed to say somebody had passed a box of cameras to him and in the box was a Rolleiflex and was I interested?
We met up and I had a look at the camera with no idea how to operate it!
It looked fine to the naked eye but did it work?
Thankfully he said take it away and run some film through it and see how it performs.
This I did and found that it appeared to be working OK once I had done lots of research on how to operate such a camera.
So I thought it would be of interest to folk to hear how I get on in my adventures with a Rolleiflex
So lets start at the beginning
Part 1
Lets take a look at how I got this camera and how I discovered which model it was and if it worked?
What are the issues
The positives
The negatives
The challenges