[rollei_list] Re: Karl Heitz, RIP (Query: Mechancial Cameras)

  • From: "Douglas Shea" <dshea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 20:49:44 -0600

Is the list aware that Karl Heitz died a few months ago? He left the
business to his longtime employee Loretta Rosa and from what I understand
she will be transferring ownership to one of the technicians (his name
escapes me at the moment).

My father gave me a 9d for my thirteenth birthday (he was already a 5 and 6b
user). I am such a hopeless Alpa fanatic that on my first visit to NYC when
I was fifteen, with all that NY has to offer the tourist, I was insistent
that my first order of business was to visit Karl Heitz back when he was in
the D&D Building. I spent the entire afternoon there and he could not have
been more gracious to a snotty nosed kid with obviously very little money to
spend; he very patiently brought out just about every lens and accessory
available for the cameras for me to handle. I think I ended up buying a
braided leather neck strap, but remember the experience like it was
yesterday.
        Cheers,
        Doug


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Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Query: Mechancial Cameras

At 12:54 PM 4/11/05 -0700, Jerry Lehrer wrote:
>
>I'll bet that those Tessinas are leftovers from the first
>production run in 1960!  Has anyone ever seen one
>being used?
>

I had a Tessina kit for about a year, a decade or so back.  It was quite a
nice camera and took rather decent pictures, albeit in that odd frame size.
 I even met Karl Heitz when I owned it;  he had dropped in to visit at a
local camera store and I happened to walk in and get introduced to the gent.

I stupidly took the Tessina to one of those Washington DC camera shows and
had it on my table.  A buyer offered me more than twice what I'd paid for
it, so I cheerfully sold it.  EBay has brought Tessina prices way down, so
I may get another one of these days.

Marc

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