[rollei_list] Re: More R and H ...Fritz Henle
- From: CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 08:30:20 -0300
2010/3/28 Jan Decher <Jan.Decher@xxxxxxx>:
> Carlos,
> At least Fritz Henle didn't think of the SL66 just as a studio camera. It
> replaced his TLRs quite often in later years and he liked the added
> flexibility with exchangeable lenses and the bellows movement. Very little
> is differently from a TLR really as the focus in the same familiar spot as
> is the shutter release and rewind crank...
Fritz Henle wrote the preface for the Rollei Report 1 in November
1992, two months before his death, a portrait above the preface shows
him focusing a Rollei 6006 camera. Henle writes he was one of the
firsts photographers to recognize the Rolleiflex TLR "tremendous
potential" in 1930, he became fascinated for the focusing screen that
allowed "instant composition", they were using Large Format cameras in
the Munich College for Photography, he did not like these cameras for
the creative photography he wanted to do. In 1992 he was using a SL 66
and a Rollei 6006 for his work, but he always carried a "flexible,
light weight Rolleiflex 2.8GX".
When the first Rollei MF SLR prototype was developed in 1955, Reinhold
Heidecke established for the design that the camera ergonomics needed
to be similar regarding the TLR, this way the TLR users could find
familiar the new camera. After Heidecke death in 1960, Rollei
management decided to develop the SL 66, this camera had nothing to do
with the 1955 prototype, however they also decided to respect the old
RH instructions regarding the camera main controls placement, it's the
cause for that SL 66 and TLR similarity
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