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I shoot primarily Rolleiflex TLRs for the most part, 4x5 on occasion, and 35mm only when forced to. Been doing this for almost 40 years.

TLR rules when it comes to fast, quiet photography, and is simply the easiest camera in the world to use. It's like I was born with one in my hand!

Bought a Mamiya M645Pro with the usual goodies, to replace 35mm format. It's just become too small to deal with in the darkroom.

With the 6x4.5, I can keep the rectangular format I need for certain shots, but with improved MF instead.

Lighting consists of: Sunpak (544 & 622), but mainly I use a Lumedyne 800ws system with power pack, extra large battery etc. The advantage of Lumedyne is that it is also studio lighting in a snap.

I don't use meters, just my eye/brain. Film speed only tells me how sensitive to light that particular "flavor" is, and I set my DoF based on the range I want, and simply change the shutter speed to comply with the light.

Worked for well over a decade as a recording engineer/producer before going into TV. Started playing piano @ age 4, also play drums, percussion, guitar, bass.

Own a collection of vintage guitars/drums, & related equipment. At the moment working on 2 books of photography, 1 being a collection of images shot during the last decade of recovered Titanic artifacts. Hope to get some more shots in before calling it done.

April 10th 2007, switched to a 24" iMac with upgrades. Nothing could force me to use PC ever again.

I don't believe in digital cameras, but tolerate scanners as a necessary evil to bring images to the net.

Still shooting film, and enlarging in the darkroom, the way photography is meant to be. Got turned onto Foma's Fomatone 333 and 542 paper and Ethol LPD developer. They're fantastic. Will be reprinting a lot of older images.

If the lens doesn't read "Zeiss", then it just isn't.

Last but not least: my inspirational thought for budding traditional (film/darkroom) photographers as pertaining to always asking for "cheap high-quality______":

There is NO SUCH THING as "cheap" and "high quality" when it comes to photography. The cheap becomes expensive once you have to re-do photos, and "high quality" is clearly defined as: Zeiss, Rolleiflex, Leica, Schneider, Hassy.

--Rolleijoe 2011




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