4 November, 2024
TLR Challenge: 3 – Night Shots
With an appointment nearby at 7pm and having arrived in the area at 6:15 I had about 40 minutes to shoot the third film of the day that I had promised myself I would take. With ...
28 October, 2024
TLR Challenge: 2 – The Spirit in the Sky (A One Shot Story)
This is a bit of an aside from the general theme of the challenge – equipment, method and composition. Something that just appeared and deserves its own entry. We arrived ...
28 October, 2024
Tele Rolleiflex Review – I will not be separated from this camera
It hardly seems possible but I only accepted my Tele Rolleiflex into my life a smidge over one year ago. It feels like much longer. My story is perhaps typical, a digital shoote...
25 October, 2024
My TLRs Over the Years
Examples of images made on a selection of twin lens reflex cameras.
17 October, 2024
TLR Challenge – My Response
I’m Jeffery Luhn and I’m happy to respond to Geoff Chaplin’s TLR Challenge! Background: A week after beginning my career as a news photographer in 1969, I acqu...
14 October, 2024
Yashica D – Diving into Medium Format
I have been intrigued by medium format film cameras for a while. It wasn’t until I saw a very positive review of a Yashica D TLR that I seriously looked into the po...
2 October, 2024
TLR Challenge: 1 – User Errors
There are no mistakes, only learning experiences. After about 8 weeks from the start of my challenge I’ve had plenty of learning experiences so I thought it would be wort...
My first foray into the world of TLR cameras was back in the early 1980’s, courtesy of a brand new Lubitel. I bought it from an old fashioned camera shop on Oldham Street ...