Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Said goodbye to my Rollei GX

I said goodbye to an old friend this week.

No nothing tragic.... I just sold one of my favorite cameras. I'm trying to clear out stuff I'm not using. I guess I'm a photographer not a collector.

I've used a number of Rollei's over the years and have been shooting with the GX twin lens for the last few. Well I just wasn't using the camera enough, so I put it on eBay and it sold to a photographer in Beijing.

The Rollei twin lens is a classic by any measure and a lot of photographers did their best work with one. Great names like Avedon and Penn all used the cameras. I liked using it but always felt the lens was too short at 80mm. I used it for half length portraits and it needed a longer lens to narrow the field of view... especially in my studio.

Anyway it was a pleasure to use all these years and I was fortunate enough to have one of the rare gold plated 70th anniversary versions. I shot a fair number of editorial portraits with it and many subjects commented on the fact that I shot with a gold camera. I guess it helped me stand out from the regular "Joe Photographer".

It was a great camera and a pleasure to use... I'm sure I'll regret selling it in about a week.

Do you have a favorite camera that you're sorry you sold?

Rob Skeoch
www.thepicturedesk.ca

3 comments:

  1. Never had a Rollei or a Leica but I still to this day regret selling My Nikon FA when I moved to Canon for autofocus,it was a gem to handle and the sound of that shutter was almost sexy

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  2. I had my Pentax MX stolen along with a 35 f2 and the 100 2.8. This was the camera that got me thru college and got me on the front page of USA Today so it was really special to me.

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  3. I had a Pentax Asahi Spotmatic with couple lenses, I got it for a great price and sold it for very high. But it just hurt my heart so bad, I could give anything now to get my camera back. I took so many good shots with that.

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