[rollei_list] Re: About the 2.8 GX/FX kinship

  • From: "Eric Goldstein" <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:44:12 -0400

From what you describe, there are clearly differences in quality
between the two, Carlos, though it is not clear from the question
which would be the higher quality camera...Kinda depends on what one
means by quality... image quality? build quality? ergonomics?
functionality?

Eric Goldstein


On 6/13/06, Carlos Manuel Freaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
According my experience, there are no quality
differences; there are some different materials used
for the F and GX/FX, for example the F internal
baffles against the GX/FX foam used to diminish flare
and a bit more of plastic used for some external GX/FX
parts. BTW there are other differences regarding
models features, i.e. the GX/FX don't allow film
format change, don't have self-timer and there are
some complaints about the way the shutter release
works in the GX/FX due to the plate added to connect
the lightmeter, but the quality manufacture is the
same for both cameras; in the other hand the FX has
the electronic lightmeter and black film rollers for
the film to avoid rollers reflections in the
photographs for extreme light conditions, some old
Rollei TLR users have reported this problem for some
cases where the previous frame light is strong too
much, the roller reflection appears for the next
frame, these are rare cases but they exist, Rollei had
some reason to paint the FX film rollers black.-

All the best
Carlos
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