Other 35mm Rangefinder: In 1932 Zeiss Ikon brought out a similar camera, the Contax; it featured a built-in rangefinder coupled with the focusing mechanism so that by simply rotating the lens until a double image of the subject became single, the photographer was assured that the image would be in focus. Soon lenses with apertures as large as //1.5 were offered for the Leica, the Contax, and a host of other 35mm rangefinder cameras. A further refinement was the provision of single-lens reflex viewing on a ground glass observed at eye level through a prism, as in the highly popular Nikon F, introduced shortly after World War II by Zeiss Ikon of Dresden as the Contax S.
The technical problems will be minimized if you provide yourself with the proper equipment. The widest market for flower pictures is for 35mm color slides, but that doesn't mean that just any 35mm Camera is the suitable tool for.
For black and white assignments, which are 80 percent of my assignments, a 35mm Camera is just fine, and half your picture could be done with the 35mm or 28mm lens. The addition of a 2%-inch square format Camera is useful because some clients want larger color images from which to reproduce. Contact prints made in this size are easier to look at than 35mm.
You should retain a contact sheet of every roll of black and white you shoot. If you are naturally neat and orderly, your equipment will be spotless and you will be able to retrieve pictures taken years ago as easily as you'd locate pictures taken last week. Look at them and keep trying to improve, trying to change for the better, and above all, try not to keep your talents a secret. I will repeat: The idea is basic to your success as a freelancer.
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