DOK TEE/TED LAMBERT/REALIST-RBT-WOLLENSAK/MACRO

[P3D Jon Golden <3dman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

DOK TEE WROTE:

>>Going beyond ordinary photography, I had the chance to view 250 slides by the late New Yorker, Ted Lambert.  I was astonished by his creativity!  2/3 of the slides were taken inside his house, with techniques that he developed/mastered.  All mounted in Realist format slides.  Also, lots of multiple exposures, etc., in outdoor pictures.  He proved to me that 99.9% of the stereo photographers today have not used more than 10% of the capabilities of their stereo cameras.  Ted proves that it is not the $100 stereo camera to blame for mediocre results but the lack of imagination in many of us.
-- George Themelis

I completely agree Dok Tee, Ted Lambert is a classic fave of mine...he
did some really inspirational stuff...that is using his own cleverness
and ingenuity...he had no big-ass fancy stereo cameras (gee RBT was not
around then...heh, heh) with bubble levels ( I still marvel at why
people rely on a level) and all sorts of self-important, basically
useless features on it to get in the way of his pure creativity.....and
to firhter support your theory...I remember getting the RBT X2 (a fancy
big-ass multi featured mid-life crisis looking piece of cameradom) to
try for the first time....boy was I dissapointed in the camera, looking
the first roll I got back......wait a minute....maybe it wasn't the X2
camera...maybe IT WAS ME!  Sure it was me...I was not familiar with the
subtleties of this new camera.  Eventually I learned to use and enjoy
the X2 immensely.  I would say the same for a Realist.....Revere....or
whatever old camera....the camera is "limited by the imgaination and
abilities" of the user.  Of course.....the camera is a tool...and moving
from an old 50's camera to a new RBT is a whole different animal.  

May I say that recently....with my RBT S1 out on rental....my X2 sold to
someone else...and not an RBT in sight to use....I pulled out my beloved
old faithful Custom Realist 2.8.....which by the way DOES NOT TAKE
PICTURES ANY SHARPER, TO THE HUMAN EYE (as Eric G says...let the flames
begin!) THAN A REGULAR Realist 3.5....maybe you could see it under the
microscope with some anaylsis.  I still love my Realist...and have also
been enjoying the Wollensak that I obtained last year.....fine sharp
images from both.

By the way, DOK TEE, I just got the RBT S1 that you reviewed, back from
being modified by the boys in Stuttgardt and it has two features added
to it.  It has a button on the left-front side of the camera... that
serves to give you quick touch, light metering...and autofocus.
It allows you to do it fast and wothout accidentally firing the shutter,
great feature.  It also now has a receptacle for a remote control
shutter release, not a feature found on Konica Hexars (The RBT S1 is a
twin Konica Hexar)...or as I imagine most other high end point and shoot
viewfinder cameras.

Here is a first for everyone reading it, I just got off the phone with
RBT and it looks like RBT will be sending me a prototype macro
attachment, and test proof images, designed for the RBT X and 109 series
cameras.  In the meantime....
Wellll..time to go build a pinhole camera out of Play Dough....and push
the envelope of creativity.  Later....Jon Golden RBT/USA



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