Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/27

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: rolleiflex (non) irritation
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:28:18 -0500
References: <F180HLBQhExkiyPoHZg0000935c@hotmail.com>

Richard Setchim wrote:
> 
> [John Brownlow wrote about the difficulty in taking head height photographs
> with a TLR]
> 
> But when you are photographing children the chest/waist level height of a
> TLR lens produces more natural pictures than those taken from the eye level
> of this 6ft 4inch frame.

Not only that, but when you're taking photos of young children, who
spend much of their lives on the floor, what could be easier, and
produce more natural photos, than placing your TLR on the floor, or just
above it, and shooting that way - difficult to do with an RF or SLR
without laying on the floor yourself...

B. D.

In reply to: Message from "Richard Setchim" <rvys@hotmail.com> ([Leica] Re: rolleiflex (non) irritation)