[rollei_list] Re: Kiev Body

I interchange them routinely.  Both ways.

P.J. Nebergall

On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 07:20:43 -0700 "Marvin Wallace"
<Marvin0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Hello all,
> 
> I would like to ask if it is possible to use original Contax 
> rangefinder
> lenses on the Kiev Contaxski body,
> 
> with a reasonable amount of focusing accuracy.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Marvin.
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> Peter, 
> 
> No, the Ektar Rolleiflex 2A was owned by a friend.  O. Heinemann did 
> the 
> installation of the lens. 
> 
> Jerry 
> 
> "Peter K." wrote: 
> 
> Jerry, So you had an oddity. I think you also had a Rollei TLR with 
> a Ektar.
> Neither were factory made. Peter K  
>  On 6/15/06, Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> 
> I dinna ken from whence it came, but it looked pristine.  I bought 
> it out of
> an advert 
> in the local free newspaper, a long way back.  It certainly did not 
> look
> like a hack 
> job.  At the time, I did not realize that it might be unique. 
> 
> Jerry 
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> "Peter K." wrote: 
> 
> Well, the T did not come from from the factory that way, someone 
> please will
> correct me here if I am wrong. So I would assume it was done by a 
> technician
> thereafter? Peter K On 6/14/06, Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote: 
> 
> Peter, 
> 
> As I may have said before, I once had a T that had an E side plate 
> so that
> double 
> exposures could be made. (the shutter could be recocked) 
> 
> Jerry 
> 
> "Peter K." wrote:Hi Douglas, The T was something of a stripped down 
> Rollei F
> that basically targeted the same market as the earlier Rolleicord. 
> The T was
> named for Theodore Uhl, a choice of names that allegedly got him 
> fired when
> management at Rollei found out he named the camera after himself.I 
> have a
> Rollei T and it is among my favorites. What it lacks is 220 
> capability and
> multiple exposure. But 220 and Multi-exposure were more for pros, 
> and this
> camera was designed for the amateur and advanced amateur market. The 
> T came
> with a Zeiss Tessar or Schneider Xenar F3.5 taking lens. It was 
> lighter that
> the standard Rollei F and had the ability to use a 6 x 4.5cm adapter 
> (an
> adapter the more expensive models could not use). Like the F it 
> could use
> the Rolleikin for 35mm film, and had a removable hood, so you could 
> use a
> prism in place of the Waist Level Finder.As someone already pointed 
> out, the
> F TLRs of the 60s and 70s were different bodies than the T. The 
> newer FX and
> GX bodies are based on the T as the tooling for the previous Fs was 
> not
> available. Personally, it is my opinion that this was smarter idea 
> since it
> was less costly to use a T chassis. Rest assured someone will 
> disagree with
> me here and tell me I am wrong even though I state this is just an 
> opinion.
> ;-) Peter K 
> On 6/13/06, Douglas Nygren <dnygr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> 
> I have a Rollei and have not paid much attention to bodies, etc. It 
> performs well. 
> 
> What is a T body? An F body? The GX, FX are recent vintage cameras, 
> right? 
> 
> Doug 
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