[rollei_list] Re: (OT) Rilex Press Cameras
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 10:03:49 -0700
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From: "Don Williams" <dwilli10@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 10:24 PM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: (OT) Rilex Press Cameras
At 12:10 AM 3/25/2012, Kirk Thompson wrote, in part:
Further, it would need a flash bracket and a (Kalart)
rangefinder.
It would have a back window cover, as in the picture; but
it would
never be focused that way (except perhaps for copy work).
With 127
& 135mm lenses (often Ektars; sometimes Xenars, etc.), a
rangefinder
would be almost as important as a film.
I remember that some "press cameras" had a solenoid
associated with
the shutter, perhaps as an add-on flash sync device.
I also remember, prior to 1950, that photographers at
school dances
used a Rollei with two coupled light beams to focus in the
dark.
Finally, I bought my first strobe in Panama in the summer
of
1953. It was powered by a 67.5 volt battery and worked
fine. I did
have to grind another cam on my Argus C4 shutter shaft for
X
sync. It only had F and M as I recall. It took a while
for me to
figure out that using larger and larger lens openings
didn't change
the exposure. I finally flashed the shutter from the
back, camera
open, and found that the shutter was only partly open when
the flash
fired. The shutter toggle bar broke and I sent it to
Argus for
repair. They ripped out my stuff and I had to make new
contacts. That toggle was a design defect.
DAW
Kalart made a rangefinder model for use on TLR cameras.
It was screwed to the bottom of the camera using the tripod
connector. It had an actuating arm that reached in front of
the lensboard. Of course it would not work on front element
focusing cameras like the Kodak Reflex.
One also finds older Rolleiflex cameras with fittings
for a flash solenoid. Usually these were arranged so that
the solenoid could be removed when not in use. Often an
extra trip lever was fixed to the shutter. Other solenoids
used the cable release socket to actuate the shutter.
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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