What camera is this please?

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Hi All,

Can anyone tell me what camera David Bailey is using in this photograph please? Thanks

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Is it a Halina A1 TLR???

Thanks
 
Looks more like a Yashica 124 TLR to me. Difficult to say though.
 
Definitely a Rolleiflex.

I bet he can't get into those trousers now!



Steve.
 
If he can still get into skirts like that one, i doubt hey cares about the trousers. ;)
 
dazzajl said:
If he can still get into skirts like that one, i doubt hey cares about the trousers. ;)
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Tch tch. :D Look how high that centre column is. Give him a slap Daz. :lol:
 
CT said:
Tch tch. :D Look how high that centre column is. Give him a slap Daz. :lol:
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LOL :lol: Gitzos haven't changed much! Two-eight Rolleiflex for sure.
 
He's still got it I think - there was a documentary on BBC4 the other week where Rankin recreated a bunch of historic photos. One of them was one of Bailey's (he's mates with him) and Bailey said the picture was taken on a Rolleiflex 2.8 and had the actual camera with him. Rankin used it to recreate the shot.

Incidentally - look what I was given by a relative last week :

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They had a bunch of old cameras they'd been given and they'd 'been laying around for ages taking up space.' :D
 
How many Mp in that! Looks like it has two lenses as well. Must be 100Mp in stereo :eek:
 
The 2.8 is one of the nicer ones - very sought after and yep it still looks the bizzo.
 
When Rolleiflex was the camera to have for first rate prints the Russians brought out a "copy" called the Lubitel:-
http://www.camerapedia.org/wiki/Lubitel_166B
It cost about 1/10 th of the price of the Rolleiflex and produced excellent results.
 
Im so gunna get me a Lubitel in a few months! Can you still get the film for these?
 
you can 120 film from plenty of places. As someone who had had a lubitel I wouldn't really compare it with a rollie.
 
You can definitely still get film for them. I use it all the time.

Not much use buying one if you can't!!

It's 120 size film available in black and white, colour negative and transparency and in a camera like this will give you 12 square exposures per roll 6cmx6cm.

Scan it at 4800 dpi and you will get an image of 116 M pixels. (I don't do this, I print it properly with an enlarger!).



Steve.
 
There's plenty of 120 film available on ebay if you can't get it locally.
 
Kev M said:
you can 120 film from plenty of places. As someone who had had a lubitel I wouldn't really compare it with a rollie.
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Ah yeah, but im not looking at it as an investment or for the superior quality, i just want it for a bit of fun :)
 
go to the film forum and put your name down for the travelling 6x6 then.
 
Didgi Widgi said:
Is it a Halina A1 TLR???
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Unlikely a pro was using a Haline AI TLR in the studio. They are a bit errmm interesting. I've got one!



Interesting review here.

Particularly like the comment:

'Of all the Halina models this Twin Lens Reflex is one of their better efforts but quality never stood in the way of price, the lens in particular being rather dubious'... :lol:

Image from my Halina: (Ilford HP5+)

 
AliB said:
Ha! That made me laugh, if you need a sugar daddy I need a Russian Billionaire! :D
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Привет ребенок :D
 
arclight said:
When Rolleiflex was the camera to have for first rate prints the Russians brought out a "copy" called the Lubitel:-
http://www.camerapedia.org/wiki/Lubitel_166B
It cost about 1/10 th of the price of the Rolleiflex and produced excellent results.
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Here's mine:

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As said, if you do get one, please don't compare it to the Rollei - the Lubitel is a piece of utter junk!
You might be able to get ok pictures out of it, but it's very badly made and even getting it to focus is a difficult task!

Instead, you might want to look out for a Rolleicord:

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They were the 'amateur' version of the Rolleiflex but I would say that mine appears to be at least as good in build as my new 'flex. I got mine serviced just after I was given it - it needed some TLC and it had quite bad fungus on the lens. Cleaned up very nicely though!

Yes, sorry - I've got a few TLRs. In my defense, apart from the horrible Lubitel they've all come my way from relatives!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dvf-woz/sets/72157612973898110/

Roll film is EASY to get. It's not that easy to get processed, but you can do it yourself without much cost.
 
Woz! said:
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I've got one of those! My dad left it to me. I used it a bit in the 70s and it still works fine.

The best copy of a Rollieflex was the YashicaMat 124G, which is going for peanuts today. Like £50 :eek: It was mechanically and optically very good, not quite a Rollei, but if you wanted to have a go at real film photography, that would be a very good cheap buy.

The camera that rivalled Rollei TLRs in later years was the Mamiya C330. Mechanically more advanced with interchangeable lenses and close-focusing. Going for a couple of hundred quid today.

But please, don't get a Lubitel. They're just unpleasant.
 
dazzajl said:
Привет ребенок :D
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Ha ha! I hope that's clean dazz, I'm going to run it through a translator! :D

Or is it your bank account details in Moscow :)
 
I'm not sure but this 'might' be a copy ;)

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Takes me back - as a photography obsessed schoolboy I had a secession of 6x6 TLR's in the 70's culminating with a Mamya C330 with 55, 80 and 180 lenses.

Wish I still had it! :|
 
dazzajl said:
Привет ребенок :D
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Привет ребенок back to you too :)

I may have 9 "O" levels but Russian is not one of them! :thinking:
 
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