{"id":15606,"date":"2016-06-02T13:50:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T17:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=15606"},"modified":"2016-06-02T13:28:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T17:28:51","slug":"brians-field-finder-cab-view-of-a-soviet-electric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/brians-field-finder-cab-view-of-a-soviet-electric\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian\u2019s Field-Finder Cab-View of a Soviet Electric."},"content":{"rendered":"

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In July 2002, I spent a week in Estonia photographing railway operations.<\/p>\n

It was organized for me take a cab-ride on an empty oil-train in a recently imported former Union Pacific General Electric C36-7 diesel.<\/p>\n

I wrote about this adventure in my recently published book The World\u2019s Most Exotic Railway Journeys<\/a> produced in the UK by John Beaufoy Publishing Limited. (Available on Amazon<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I was working with three cameras. Previously I\u2019ve published color views exposed\u00a0with my Contax G2 rangefinder and Nikon N90S single-lens reflex, however until today most of my \u00a0black & white photos remained unpublished and unseen.<\/p>\n

I made \u00a0my black & white photos using\u00a0\u00a0a Rollei Model T twin-lens reflex (120 size film camera). So, rolling along at about 30 mph east of Tallinn, I made this view of a Riga-built Tallinn-area electric suburban train.<\/p>\n

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Exposed with a Rolleiflex Model T twin-lens reflex fitted with a 75mm Zeiss Tessar. Kodak Tri-X processed in Ilford ID-11 1:1 with water. Scanned at 3200 dpi with a Epson V600 flatbed scanner. Scaled for internet presentation using Lightroom; however there was no post-processing manipulation to density, contrast or sharpness.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Significantly,I made this image by using the Rollei\u2019s field-finder\u2014 which is nothing more than a pair of open squares that allow you to frame up a photo while holding the camera at eye-level.<\/p>\n

Normally, I\u2019d focus using the camera’s built in magnifying glass on the waist level viewer (which supplies a view through the top lens arrangement that projects onto a Fresnel screen. The down side of this viewing mechanism is that you must look down into the camera and the image is in reverse.<\/p>\n

So exposing photos from a moving locomotive cab using the waist-finder is not only impractical, but can lend to sea-sickness.<\/p>\n

Another advantage of the field-finder is that you are actually looking at your subject without any distortion caused by a lens. In today\u2019s photography it rare that you actually see your subject at the time the shutter is released. You\u2019d be amazed how this direct viewing can improve composition.<\/p>\n

Also, the Rollei\u2019s mechanical shutter release is virtually instantaneous.<\/p>\n

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To see the full image click on Tracking the Light. In July 2002, I spent a week in Estonia photographing railway operations. It was organized for me take a cab-ride on an empty oil-train in a recently imported former Union Pacific General Electric C36-7 diesel. I wrote about this adventure in my recently published book … Continue reading Brian\u2019s Field-Finder Cab-View of a Soviet Electric.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10,48],"tags":[3814,3123,2892,108,87,1775],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Estonia_July2002\u00a9Brian-Solomon-582398.jpg?fit=2000%2C2000","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-43I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15606"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15609,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15606\/revisions\/15609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}