Rollei­flex

Two peo­ple who were inter­ested in one of my older cam­eras requested that I take this photo. The cam­era is a mid-1950s Rollei­flex, with attached Rollei­flash. The cam­era cost $135 on eBay, and the flash was $1.50 at KEH.

When scanned with my Nikon LS-9000, a 6×6 photo pro­duces a file of approx­i­mately 75 megapix­els, and with a dynamic range greater than the newest and most expen­sive dig­i­tal cam­era can produce.

Fujifilm’s killer medium for­mat film cam­era. It has long been only a pro­to­type. We first heard about at last year’s PMA trade show and were able to see a wooden ver­sion of it at Pho­tok­ina in Sep­tem­ber 2008. But now, it’s offi­cial. Fuji­film is weeks away from releas­ing its GF670 Pro­fes­sional medium for­mat film cam­era. Here is our full arti­cle about it.

Out­side of Japan, the cam­era should be released under the Voigt­lander Bessa III 667 name, which Cosina will dis­trib­ute. [The British Jour­nal of Pho­tog­ra­phy]

The ear­lier announce­ment had already raised my inter­est. From the addi­tional infor­ma­tion, it looks like it will be about the same size as a Leica, and smaller when folded. Still no price, but I’ll prob­a­bly buy one when they’re released.