Rolleiflex

Square – LCA-120, Rolleiflex, and the SWC

Film - Kodak & Other, Lomo LCA-120, Rolleiflex /

I’ve enjoyed the Lomo LC A-120, but I have now discovered something that is an outgrowth of the camera’s design. It’s program seems to prioritize aperture when the light gets low. SO that means that the f/4.5 lens has its most pronounced vignetting and softness as the light falls. As a shooter, if you want sharper photos, you need to use faster film or shoot in lower light. If you shoot with slower film or in lower light, you have to expect that you will get those more dreamy and “flawed” photos. You can see this in the first picture. […]

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Yummy

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Rolleiflex shot of a now For Sale ice cream location. Used to be Frosty Freeze in Garwood for 20-30 years, then closed and renamed somewhere around the pandemic. Now FS again. This taken in late June, now in late July the For Lease is gone. This taken with my Rolleiflex, but needed extensive Ps work to correct perspective and clean up the area around the structure.

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Abandoned

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Behind Young Paint in Fanwood, NJ, there sits an old shed. Probably used by that business for storage. Young Paint was a great, local paint store with a bunch of very knowledgeable guys who would spend the time to work with you to get the right paint or varnish for your needs. Founded in 1957 it was a fixture of the community. I don’t know what actually happened, but I imagine it succumbed to the big box Lowes and Home Depot like so many neighboord hardware or paint stores. Regardless of the service, the big paint companies don’t want to

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