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Rolleiflex

Photographing with the vredebox made me realize that I wanted to experience more of analog photography. So I started searching online for a more advanced camera. The vredebox is great, but you’re so limited to what you can photograph with it and how. So I wanted so more control over depth of field, shutterspeed and aperture. My search let me towards the Twin Lens Reflex camera’s. Although these camera’s are pretty old, you still pay a good amount of money for them. I mean a mamiya or yashica changes owner for about 300 euro on ebay.

On 2dehands.be I found after a lot of searching a original Rolleiflex Standard 622 from 1934 for 50 euro. I went to check it out, although it misses the plate with the serial number, everything else is in great shape. I went with it.

The Rolleiflex original standard model was made by Franke & Heidecke in Braunschweig, Germany from 1932 to 1938. The lens is a 75mm f3.5 uncoated carl zeis lens, the shutter goes from 1/500 till 1 second. And off course there is a bulb mode. Apparently famous war photographer and Magnum co-founder Robert Capa used this camera during WW II, next to a contax camera.

I tried some different film with it, at the moment I haven’t figured out which one I prefer but what I do know is, that this is an awsome camera. Just look at some of the results.

[rolleiflex] 't Steen in Antwerp
[rolleiflex] Sara in the park
[rolleiflex] [double-exposure] Simon and alleyway
[rolleiflex] Sara at sunset
[rolleiflex] BGGD 27

I love the colors, the square format and just everything about this camera. If you want to follow more the results just follow this set


2010
05/10
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Vredebox

When my grandparents died last year, my family and I had to clean out their house. I knew they had a very old camera on their chimney but I didn’t know if it still worked. To my big surprise everything worked great, although it all could use a little cleaning.

I started researching the camera on the internet and found that it’s a vredebox made by a German company called vredeborch in Friedeburg. The camera uses 120 film, has a meniscus lens with an aperture of f11. Fastest shutterspeed is 1/30th of a second. There are 3 levers on the side, one for stopping down the lens to f16 and the other 2 to use the bulb setting.

Those settings are a bit of a let down, but I wanted to test it out anyway. So after Pieter gave me a roll of Ilford Delta 3200 pro, I started shooting with the vredebox.

Oh yeah, just so you know, the minimum focus distance on this camera is 3 meters.

Let me first post some results and then I’ll give a little review about the camera.

[vredebox] St-Rombouts Cathedral
This picture was taken on Ilford Delta 400 pro film.

[vredebox] Lamot and Dijle
Taken on Ilford Delta 3200

[vredebox] Hotel Vé
Taken on Ilford Delta 100 film

If you want to follow my progress with the vredebox, I suggest you follow this set on flickr, I’ll post the results there when available.

Now for a short review of the camera. Although it’s technically not very good, I really like the box feeling and the way of taking pictures. Because of the lack of features or wide range of aperture and shutterspeed, I think a lot more before I make I picture. This makes that I’m more concentrating on the framing of the shot, which is not easy in the small viewfinder located at your stomach.

Until now I’m very pleased with the results of the box, a camera that’s at least 60 year old. It’s a decent and fun camera for hobby projects, so I’ll be playing with it a lot more in the future


2010
05/02
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