[rollei_list] Re: OT: Tenax II
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:59:23 -0500
At 02:37 AM 1/18/2010, Sanders McNew wrote:
>
>Does anyone on-list have experience with these cameras?
>Any advice would be much appreciated.
Sanders
I have some experience, but not a lot, with the
Tenax line. I have bucketloads of experience
with the Contax RF line, however. Almost all
Zeiss Ikon miniature-format cameras allowed the
use of a proprietary cassette, a design vastly
superior to that used by Leitz. You can use
these cassettes on both sides, both to supply and
to take up film. There are several designs
between 1933 and 1971, but these are all
interchangeable (not the case, mind you, for the
Leitz cassettes!). The Arsenal Works in Kiev
produced a copy of the Prewar cassette which was
available new, at least, until 1990, though the
ones I own are certainly earlier than this. And
Nikon stole the design and supplied new Nikon
cassettes into the 1980's. Of these, the Zeiss
Ikon cassettes are the most available, the Nikon
cassettes being a bit harder to find, and the
Kiev cassettes impossible to locate though Yuri
Boguslavsky (Fedka) can probably find you a few,
or Mark Chaney. Bob Pins -- a noted Rolleiflex
authority -- generally has some of the Prewar Zeiss Ikon cassettes for sale.
Oddly, I do have a late version of the Zeiss Ikon
spool sitting on my desk in front of me as I
write these words, and I might be convinced to
part with a couple of Zeiss Ikon cassettes. The
cassettes are MUCH easier to locate than are the individual spools.
There is a Zeiss Ikon Collectors' Group over on
Yahoo Groups which you might consider
joining. Many of us are members there -- Austin
is a frequent and valued contributor on the Super
Ikonta line, for instance -- and, if you decide
to join, your request will be forwarded to me, as I am the co-moderator ....
So, what you really need are two Zeiss Ikon
cassettes, or two Nikon cassettes, or two Kiev
cassettes, or some mixture of these. Then you
just load a cassette (IN THE DARK, mind you!) and
use that on the supply side with the other on the
take-up side. When finished with the roll, you
do not need to re-roll: just open the camera and
remove the two cassettes. Mighty nifty!
And, now, what about those serial numbers? Body
and lens, and thank you! Lt-Col Simon Worsely
will want the body number and Charlie Barringer will want the lens number.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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