Rolleiflex camera value
#Rolleiflex camera value full#
The last one I’ve seen advertised on eBay was badly scratched (described as in excellent condition, it pays to look at the pictures at their full enlargement) and the price being asked was £55 + P&P.Īn accidental Rolleiflex TLR: A new experience with the Rolleiflex Automat 6×6 Model RF 111A
Unfortunately replacement Rolleiflex focus screens are rarer than a win on the lottery, especially if like me you don’t buy a ticket. Note the photo below: the Rick Oleson Brightscreen is already installed but you can clearly see how bad discolouration on the old screen was. The only problem is that the 60-year-old bit of plastic that was supposed to be a focus screen was yellowing with age and had gone quite dark along one edge. This time, a grey Rolleiflex T, which had just been serviced and is in good working condition. And, as I’ve always regretted selling my GX, I recently bought another. I began collecting a few old and interesting roll film cameras.
Why couldn’t they ask me something I actually knew?Īs soon as I was old enough and no longer had to work to live or learn anything else about digital imaging, I gravitated back to proper photography. I’d actually planned this topic in the next lesson so we’ll leave it ’til this afternoon”, scurry back to the staff room at lunchtime and look up ‘file formats and compression’ or whatever. “Yes Rachel in the front row, thank you for asking that. As a lecturer in photography at a Further Education College I was supposed to be at least a couple of paragraphs of ‘Photoshop for Dummies’ ahead of my students although I have to admit sometimes it didn’t work out that way. In a sense, the choice to switch to digital was forced upon me. On reflection, getting rid of the Rolleiflex might have been one of the sillier decisions I made because if you sold a GX today you’d be able to purchase a low-mileage Mazda MX5, tax and insure it, put on four new tyres and have enough change to tour Scotland for a fortnight. Twenty-five years ago I part exchanged my Rolleiflex 2.8GX for a crappy plastic 3MP SLR digital thingy, which produced files so large (at least 5MB!) that my Tiny computer took a full 20 minutes to open each image. Unfortunately, using vintage cameras half a century old can often fall short of our expectations because either the original ground-glass focus screen lacks a fresnel lens to spread the light evenly into the corners, or if it is made of plastic, it will have yellowed and faded with the time.Įither way it’s more like gaping into a pit than composing a picture.