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ROLLEIFLEX CAMERA VALUE ISO
Shutter speeds range from B to 1000 ISO settings reach a whopping (for its time) 6400. It is surprisingly small and lightweight for a pro-level SLR, but feels very solidly built indeed. In terms of handling, the S元5 compares favourable with my Pentax Spotmatic. As I tend to use either Sunny 16 or an external light meter, the camera’s integrated metering system is a bonus for me at most.
ROLLEIFLEX CAMERA VALUE MANUAL
I tend to use the manual setting, since focussing through a dimmed-down lens is rather inconvenient. The lens can be switched from manual (M) to auto (A), with the latter setting allowing the user to meter with the chosen aperture value engaged. In practice, however, this has not posed a problem to me for very long. The shutter release is mounted on top of the combined shutter speed/film speed thumbwheel which lives in the usual place further towards the viewfinder.
(I’ve also set up a complete B&W darkroom, as I want to go the whole way in terms of “artistic control” – the images for this articles are, without exception, scanned from either RC or fibre-based prints.)įarmer – S元5 Planar, Foma 100 fibre-based printįeature-wise the S元5 is nothing to write home about – one could say its feature set and layout were borrowed wholesale from Asahi Pentax’ early 1960s Spotmatic, with one odd exception: Where one would expect to find the shutter release on an SLR camera, there is a big black plastic button that triggers the TTL metering system. The loot included a Contax IIa, a Rolleicord, an early Pentax Spotmatic and a Canon F1 (original), amongst others, as well as, most recently, a Rolleiflex S元5. I wanted to make my snapshots count again, so I set out acquiring a small, yet comprehensive collection of cameras, helped by the fact that many classic cameras can be had for a song these days. I think that in the past couple of years I had got sick of taking thousands and thousands of digital photographs and relegating them to the confines of various external hard drives, some of which I can’t even access any longer due to their obsolete Firewire format. You don’t know what I got up to back then! Thinking about it, it might actually be a good thing. Alas, few of those pictures have survived my adult years. In early 2019, my interest in analogue photography was suddenly rekindled after a hiatus of a mere 35 years – as a teenager I had discovered my grandfather’s 6×6 folder and learnt photography using this 1940s camera, shooting in B&W and having prints made at the local photo shop.
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