Monthly Archives: July 2009 We had a coffee at the Deptford Project Cafe. They do a really good Americano. The Lobster will hate this photo but I like the two smiles The cafe is a converted railway carriage outside Deptford Station. It has a decking terrace so it is good to be able to sit outside, although it is…  I’m very enamoured of my ‘new’ Rolleiflex 3.5F Type 4 This photo show various other bits & pieces too: a Rolleinar 2, a Rolleifix, lens hood, medium yellow filter and the gorgeous burnished alluminium caps. I have never regarded my cameras merely as tools to get photographs. I also like intricate engineering and complex technologies…  Having used the Yashica-Mat and enjoyed it so much I should have known myself better… So I now have an early 1970s Rolleiflex 3.5F type 4, serial 2820xxx with a Planar 6 element lens. Cosmetically beautiful and as far as I can tell, optically very good, plus it has a bright viewfinder (grid with a…  Finding this chair at The Old Royal Naval College made my day! Electric chair I’m learning about controlling the flare on the Yashica-Mat. It is simply something that has to be factored in. I’m using a 3rd party lens hood and although it doesn’t vignette, it only partially controls the flare. I got sniped on…  I took delivery of a gorgeous and immaculate 40(ish) year old Yashica-Mat 66 twin lens reflex (TLR). It has already been labelled ‘The Beast’. In its ‘never-ready’ case it has the look of a ‘grandad’ camera. Like something from another age. The lenses are bright, clear, clean and free of fungus. The shutter speeds sound… |
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