Persephone and great Oedipus Rex
Are classic names, but so hard to utter
Compared with just as classic Rolleiflex
With its silky Synchro-Compur shutter.
I ask you, what exists beneath the stars,
Among the inventions that now abound,
To rival Tessars, Planars, Xenotars
Or that sharp square image the wrong way round?
Ask an old Braunschweig worker where he sat:
A Rolleiflex or a DSLR?
He'd say, " Gib mir bitte die Automat!
Which might sound crazy, but there you are --
After all is said, after all is done,
The old Rolleiflex is still much more fun.
Eddie Vaughan