Tech Eye: Crank and click

Gods among men, you might say, who dashed off words at the speed of candlelight, using their guile, cunning and endless calls on wind-up phones to fill the pages, without the technological girly crutches that TechEye depends upon like a crack-hungry junkie, such as e-mail, the internet and all things digital. When they weren't enjoying a pre-breakfast drink, they would bare-knuckle box with the local photographers to prove who among the drink sodden lot of them was a real journalist. So, when we saw this relic of a bygone, violent, disease-ridden era, we had a little knee trembler. This is a quarter-size replica of the original Rolleiflex 2.8F, which was a photo-journalists' best friend back when men were men and women were just sexual objects who couldn't drive cars. But that's were the analogous trickery ends because look in the top of the spanky new Rollei TLR and no grubby hole do you see, but a .9 inch LCD screen. The new version has a two-megapixel CMOS sensor that takes square 1,200x1,200 pixel prints, in keeping with the original. They've even kept the frame advance crank, which you have to spin around before unleashing a fresh frame. As with the original diamond, you hold it at waist length and look down as you shoot. Get yours now for around zł.1,900 from www.minoxuk.co.uk.