Exciting news! Steve called yesterday (that's not the exciting part though - he calls all the time because he loves me!) and said that he had been doing some research on tilt-shift cameras, and happened upon the Rollei SL66. He loves shooting with our Rollei twin lens reflex, and the SL66 looked pretty cool, so he did a quick search to see how much they sold for. He found a few on eBay that were priced pretty high, checked on craigslist, and found nothing in Canada. He was going to give up, but decided to click on a result from kijiji that had come up. Normally we ignore kijiji since it's notoriously crappy- the searches never seem to work, they have a ton of ads, and half the time the ads are expired.
Yesterday it worked. And the camera was in Calgary. The SL66 with 3 lenses, 2 backs, 2 viewfinders, filters, and in mint condition. All for way cheaper than anywhere else. Umm... how could we not buy it?
I can't wait to figure it out and start shooting with it. I've spent hours crawling through flickr, getting more and more excited with what you can do with tilt-shift. Here's one of my favourites:
The other cool thing about the SL66 is that you can actually put the lenses onto the body backwards, and you've got an instant macro lens. How smart is that???
So much better than a stupid old lensbaby!
Have a great day :)
Love,
Hearts & Photos
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