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Staff · Issue 91, Jul/Aug 2016 · pp. 4–12

Products mentioned: Rolleiflex, RolleiMarin housing, Nikon F, Seahorse Liveaboard, Philippine Siren

Editorial Peter Rowlands peter@uwpmag.com 4k stills I have something in common with Chuck Nicklin in that one of the first cameras I used was a Rolleiflex in a RolleiMarin housing. The only difference was that he used his in the 1950’s whereas I was in the 1970’s. It was a superb piece of engineering and design but it was limited to just 12 shots per roll. Yes, that’s right. I said 12. So that made you think very carefully before pressing the shutter. In the 1960’s expensive motordrives were available as an optional accessory. The Nikon F version for example blazed away at 3 fps and with a 36 exposure film cassette this meant you had to rewind and load a new film after 12 seconds. Nowadays with small mirrorless cameras you can shoot 4k video at 30 frames per second. “But I don’t shoot video” I hear you say but each of those frames is an 8mp still image which you can pause/extract and use…