[rollei_list] Re: Gold and Lizard Skin SL66
- From: CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:31:49 -0300
Marc, I'm afraid you confused the person, I never discussed with Jim
on the topic, I never wrote my opinion about the aesthetic of the SL
66 in eBay, but in fact, I tend to agree with Jim.
Carlos
2010/4/27 Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> At 08:08 AM 4/27/2010, CarlosMFreaza wrote:
>>Rollei produced some special SL 66 editions.
>
> Carlos and Jim, pace to the both of you!
>
> Jim, I concur that the product is, indeed, butt-ugly. When you posted that
> many hours back, I started to remark that Carlos would spring to the defense
> of the product. And so he did.
>
> But, Carlos, Jim is correct. It really is ugly. Bear in mind that Jim
> knows MF SLR systems -- he owns the Hasselblad List and uses the SL66 system
> when his Hasselblads die, which they seem to do all the time. <he grins>
> And Jim is a Tea Party guy, and I own a photograph proving this -- he
> REALLY is not as ugly as some of his friends have suggested!
>
> Me? I have never attended a Tea Party event of any sort, as I am now
> required to be politically neutral while retaining my right to free speech,
> and you figure it out. I have three Hasselblad cameras and a bunch of
> lenses, and am negotiating to buy more, while I also own a donkeysload of
> Rolleiflex gear. Brand loyalty? Well, I have owned and sold an SL66, as I
> found it large and cumbersome. And despite the longtime urgings of Bob
> Shell, I never got into the 600x system. So, I have a lot of Rollieflex TLR
> and some miniature-format gear and three Ha$$elblads, including the
> incomparable SWC.
>
> But, then, I wrote a book on non-Leitz LTM lenses (I DID invent the term, by
> the way!) and co-authored one on Zeiss Ikon, just to make you silly folks
> understand that I am not a Rolleiflex monomaniac. Someday, I would like to
> have the chance to do a really solid one-volume history of Rolleiflex with
> Jim and Carlos but I doubt that I could get them to ever sit quietly in the
> same room for very long, albeit Jim is a bit long in the tooth, as am I.
> But I still am up for the fray: I have to be loyal to my Celtic forebears,
> after all: we destroyed ourselves, in the end, by in-fighting.
>
> Be good, you guys.
>
> Marc
>
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>
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