A while ago I purchased a Rollei 35 (Tessar) from Ffordes of Inverness (a.k.a. my pusher!). I promptly fell in head over heels in love with the thing and, when the opportunity arose, nabbed a 35S on eBay. One or the other has lived in my jacket pocket ever since, but...
...the results I've been getting have been disappointing. The matter came to a head today when I processed a couple of rolls and tried scanning the results - which were shit.
I apologise for the language, but they just were! Camera shake afflicts the majority (I was shooting at 1/60th which, with a 40mm lens, my Nikon SLR would do just fine; without mirror-slap I would've expected the Rollei to do better. Maybe it's a heavier release. Maybe it's me.
), zone-focus errors hit some, poor subject selection / lousy composition nail the rest. Two rolls heading for the round file - Yes, ladies and gentlemen (and Dave Miller
), I
truly am a Filmwaster!
I was actually on the point of chucking the pair of them on to eBay and even thinking that I'd completely lost it and should go back to Crayolas and plasticine worms when I came across the enclosed, which I really,
really like! (Don't ask me why, I just do.)
So, on the basis of a grand total of one (count it!) shot, I'm going to persevere with the gorgeous, awkward, beautiful, recalcitrant little sods! I'll up my base shutter-speed to 1/125th, learn to release a shutter smoothly again and be a damn sight more discriminating over my choice of subject.
Self-confidence is extremely fragile (well, mine is anyway!), especially when you don't fully understand why you stop and make an exposure right
then and
there of
that.
Why did I post this? Buggadifino! It's been an odd sort of afternoon...!
The moral of the story?
1) Rest easy, Skorj - I ain't
never going to be a street photographer!
2) Believe in yourself. You may be wrong (and usually in the minority!), but it's still better than the alternative.
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