Hello, Rolleiflex!
So, it was my birthday in March. And with a €100 voucher for Foto Leistenschneider, which Nicole gave me as a present, it was an easy choice what to spoil myself with this year: a beautiful Rolleiflex 3.5B (also called the MX-EVS).
Leistenschneider had a few used Rolleiflexes on sale and I eventually settled on the 3.5B for €270. This one has the 75mm f/3.5 Tessar lens.
I was enjoying my Lomo Lubitel TLR very much, and I knew I wanted a TLR camera with a more high quality lens and easier operation eventually. And the Rolleis are just amazing for that. Apart from a little sticky shutter button, this one seems to work flawlessly. Not at all bad for a camera that is now 60 years old.
Of course, I immediately went out and shot a test roll with it. Here are a few shots from this test run. All shot on Fuji Acros 100 film, developed in 1+50 Rodinal, and scanned with the Canon CanoScan 9000F MKII.
Ok, holding this cam still with slow shutter speeds obviously isn’t something I’ve mastered, yet. But otherwise, it’s great fun to shoot! And certainly of a lot higher quality than the plastic Lomo Lubitel.
More Rolleiflex photos to come…