D-Day photographers * Normandy
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We still have quite a few cameras in our collection. We mostly shot 35 with a wide assortment of lenses and filters, but one camera that we just love and haven't used for a while is our Rollieflex. Wow, can that baby take GREAT photographs. You have the 2X2 negs and when you blow them up; you get clarity and sharpness.

 

I remember photographing my girlfriend's daughter. She was eleven and drop-dead gorgeous. I did a photo shoot so she could submit photos to modeling agencies. I just loved those photos taken with the Rolli!

 

People would look at photos we took and they'd always say; how come yours always look so much better than ours? Well one large factor; better cameras. We would tell them, some people take photographs, others take snapshots. Cheap cameras or simple standard digitals can't capture what great film cameras can. As Lee would say, when you use film you get down to the molecular level. Use something else and you are working with BIG PIXELS. It simply can't compare. And of course with a standard camera you have no control over your depth of field, etc. My girlfriend would always ask; how do you get the backround all "blurry"? Well you can't do that with an insta-matic. Gotta have the controls. T'ain't no other way. :pdt34:

Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter (Monday) Poniedzialek
540th Engineer Combat Regiment, 2833rd Bn, H&S Co, 4th Platoon
There's "No Bridge Too Far"
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D-Day photographers * Normandy - by CaptO - 02-05-2008, 12:26 PM
D-Day photographers * Normandy - by CaptO - 02-05-2008, 01:06 PM
D-Day photographers * Normandy - by Walt's Daughter - 02-05-2008, 01:30 PM
D-Day photographers * Normandy - by CaptO - 02-05-2008, 07:17 PM
D-Day photographers * Normandy - by verow - 10-02-2008, 11:55 AM
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