[rollei_list] Re: Lens Cap and centering Aid

  • From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 18:10:49 -0800

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From: "Marc James Small" <msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 5:52 PM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Lens Cap and centering Aid


> At 08:38 PM 2/12/05 -0500, Austin Franklin wrote:
>
>>I didn't say it didn't "work", I only questioned the claim 
>>that this
>>specific function was the intention of mirroring the cap. 
>>Again, how many
>>people take pictures of just themselves and need such a 
>>device?  I actually
>>take quite a few pictures of my self, and don't use any 
>>such "aids".
>
> Austin
>
> As it seems, someone developed this method after F&H had 
> introduced the
> shiny lens cap, and so, F&H adopted this as a proven 
> method for success.  I
> do not believe that anyone is suggesting that F&H thought 
> this one up
> before adopting the shiny lens cap.
>
> I do not see how this was supposed to work, in any event. 
> If you put the
> lens cap over the viewing lens, the second cap will fall 
> over the taking
> lens.  And, if you glue it up onto the first cap, it has a 
> black surface.
>
> So, the entire suggestion appears most bogus.  Can someone 
> enlighten me on
> just what I am missing?
>
> Marc
>
>
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx=20

    The technique is to take the cap off and rotate the 
finder cap a third turn to the next bayonette position. The 
cap is left unfolded, the taking lens cap sticks out at the 
side.
    I suspect some clever person at Rollei discovered this 
by putting the cap on wrong and thought "what a neat trick" 
(in German of course). Maybe Claus Prochnow actually knows.
    I suspect the frosted finish was introduced for any or 
all of three reasons: 1, someone throught it looked better; 
2, it was cheaper (is it?); 3, it is less vulnerable to 
showing scratches.
    In any case, it is a neat trick regardless of how 
unintentional it may be.
    You can pretend you are Marlene Dietrich, who always had 
a large mirror next to the camera so she could see herself.

---
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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