Brett Rogers

Tasmanian Brett Rogers is a nationally published photographer who captures landscape, cityscape, architectural, automotive, and floral images in and around his home town of Hobart.

Brett uses a range of equipment from his extensive collection of film cameras. Many were acquired in non-functioning condition, and were lovingly stripped and repaired by him. Most are used regularly. Brett has not owned a digital camera for a couple of years—all recent images are captured on film.

The superior image quality possible means that Brett often prefers to work in the medium format. His favourite camera is a Rolleiflex 2.8C twin lens reflex fitted with a superlative 80 millimetre Schneider Xenotar lens, but he also uses a Hasselblad SLR for much of his image capture, because of its sheer versatility, and the unsurpassed quality of its Carl Zeiss lenses. There is always a place for 35mm though, and, being a firm fan of top quality German cameras from the golden era, one of his many Zeiss Ikon Contaflex SLRs fitted with their Carl Zeiss Tessar lenses is always close to hand.

Brett prefers Fujichrome colour transparencies, particularly Velvia 50 and Provia 100F. Black and white images are mostly captured on medium or slow films. These include: Fuji Neopan Acros 100; ILFORD Pan F Plus (ISO 50); and Kodak TMAX 100. They are chosen as a result of their outstanding sharpness, extremely fine grain, and superior tonality in comparison to most digital formats. He develops his own black and white films and scans all films himself.

2011 highlights included publication in a feature article in Sails magazine and the sale of a number of prints.