Luckily it is on one of my regular routes so I got into the habit of popping in a couple of times a month. The bad news, such is the popularity of these cameras that they barely last a day in the shop! Worse still the stock isn’t on the internet so you have to go in and just see what’s there. Luckily, I have a very good vintage camera shop near me, that gets TLRs in fairly regularly. So I wasn’t that keen on buying one off of Ebay without knowing much about them, especially with so many different models that look so similar. The obvious choice would have been a Rolleiflex but I had rarely even seen one in the flesh. So I decided to shake things up and started looking for a TLR. I stuck to the same aspect ratio when I started to shoot 4×5. Going straight from 35mm to 6×7 after university and never looking back. ![]() ![]() I had never shot in the square format, despite being a photographer for 20 years. ![]() One of the unforseen advantages of shooting with a waist level finder is that it makes it much easier to shoot younger children.
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