{"id":185,"date":"2008-08-18T23:02:58","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T15:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2008-08-24T19:17:02","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T11:17:02","slug":"a-kind-of-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"A kind of magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Almost sold this Rollei Magic II TLR away some time ago after owning it for some time. As it&#8217;s the only TLR I own that has a meter built-in, and also a cool &#8216;auto&#8217; setting mode, I decided to give it a try before reconsidering the sale. Using TLRs has never been my cup of tea as the size of the camera and all that&#8217;s involved in taking a single photo always makes me go &#8216;arggggh!&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/rollei-magic-ii-test-roll-with-optima\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I must admit I almost made a big mistake by letting this camera go. This roll of Optima 100 was loaded into it for a test and look &#8230; the auto exposure thingie is pretty good despite the fact that the camera has been around for ages! This is now one camera that will be a permanent resident in my arsenal (unlike those many Chinese TLRs I&#8217;ve sold off recently :P)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/rollei-magic-ii-test-roll-with-optima\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some light leaks in a couple of the frames, which I suspect was included when I unloaded the roll out in the sun.<\/p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost sold this Rollei Magic II TLR away some time ago after owning it for some time. As it&#8217;s the only TLR I own that has a meter built-in, and also a cool &#8216;auto&#8217; setting mode, I decided to give it a try before reconsidering the sale. Using TLRs has &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link bs-book_btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/?p=185\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-with-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}