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Rolleiflex automat for 6X6cm exposures on 120 film Compur Rapid shutter T,B,1-500 speed with Tessar f3.5/75mm lens, Made by Rollei-Werke Franke & Heidecke Braunschweig Germany c1937
Lomo Sokol Automat with 2.8/50 Industar-70
Rangefinder camera with parallax compensation
Shutter speeds from 1/30 to 1/500 and B
Nearest focus distance: 0.8 m
Shutter priority automatic exposure and manual mode
What an amazing camera. It's big and heavy, but not as big as the Yashica Electro 35. The lens barrel is also a bit oversized (filter thread 55 mm), but it doesn't include a fast six-element lens, "only" a four-element Industar.
The Sokol was introduced in 1966, the first versions had 6 meter cells at the front, later they were reduced to 3. The camera above has the flash contacts at the body and not on the lens barrel, so it was produced in 1972 or later. In 1979 the Sokol was replaced by the Sokol-2.
The aperture of my copy didn't close correctly, somewhat sporadic. My attempt to fix it was very unsuccessful. I did not even find out if the blades just stuck together or there was a failure in the very sophisticated mechanism of the automatic exposure. But the opening of the camera body revealed some astonishing details. This camera has the most solid rangefinder mechanism I have ever seen, it is like looking into a vintage sewing machine. The viewfinder itself is also surprizingly good.
Now to the amazing part: I read in a camera blog, that the Sokol will adjust the shutter speed automatically, if the range of f-stops is not sufficient in automatic mode. I had my doubts, because this would be a kind of program mode. But is true, in automatic mode the chosen speed/f-stop pair is displayed in the viewfinder, when the shutter button is pressed halfway. I could not really test it, because the meter is also dead, but the mechanism is described here.
Notes:
The shutter speed and the f-stop can only be selected, when the shutter is cocked.
I could not find out, if the meter works in manual mode.
The camera needs a PX625 1.35V mercury cell.
Another question which remains: what was the archetype of this camera?
Rolleiflex Automat, Tessar 75mm with red filter, Ilford FP4 pulled to EI 50. Developed Xtol, printed on Orienatal Warmtone FB, scanned on HP Photosmart 4599.
Tive um Tio.
Era eu pequenote quando morreu.
Mas recordo de ele possuir uma agenda de secretária, grande, muito grande para os meus olhos de então, onde ele tinha anotado tudo quanto considerava de importante. E todos os anos lá copiava ele da velha para a nova.
Pois todos os dias, antes de sair de casa pela manhã, consultava ele a sua agenda e dirigia-se à estação de correios ao fundo da rua. Daí, enviava um telegrama de parabéns a quem quer que nesse dia fizesse anos. Mesmo que o ou a não visse há muito.
Um acto deliberado, consciente, trabalhoso e oneroso.
Hoje temos os “Outlooks”, os “E-Mails”, os “FaceBooks” que nos recordam, queiramos ou não, dos aniversários de quem lá conste. E usando da mesma tecnologia de informação e a custo zero, lá gastamos uns 10 a 15 segundos a mandar os tais “parabéns” descaracterizados, frios, impessoais, electrónicos.
Sendo que acho que não deverá ser uma máquina ou um calendário que deva dizer quando me devo divertir ou cumprimentar quem quer que seja, ignoro esses avisos automáticos.
Quanto ao resto, nada melhor que uma festa de desaniversário, para citar Lewis Caroll. Que, por sinal, até foi também um dos grandes fotógrafos do seu tempo.
By me
This photo is part of the workshop I participated in during the 'rencontres photographiques d'Arles' (France) with Denis Rouvre as a workshop director.
I chose 'les sud' music event as a subject and decided for 4 days to take pictures in front of a dirty wall close to place paul doumer in the popular neighborhood called la roquette. I decided to shoot musicians, people attending the free shows and local people.