[rollei_list] Re: Old article about SL2000
- From: Jan Decher <Jan.Decher@xxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:44:32 -0500
Dirk et al.
I had to smile about the last sentence:
"Kenner zweifeln deshalb nicht daran, daß die ersten in der
Bundesrepublik ausgelieferten SL 2000 F per Luftfracht in japanischen
Labors landen und dort bis zum letzten Chip seziert werden."
(Those in-the-know do not doubt that the first SL2000 F delivered in
the Federal Republic are being air-freighted to Japanese labs where
the are being dissected to the last chip.)
Sounds rather too confident in German technology, at a time when
Japan had already release such marvels as the Canon A1, Minolta XD7
and the new Canon F1N. Sadly, very few people know or care about
Rollei's "cube" 35mm camera today, while Canon and Minolta technology
lives on in the Canon EOS and the Sony Alpa systems
I have the original German SL2000 brochure ("Rolleiflex SL 2000 F
Eine Klasse für sich" - in a class by itself) Both camera and
brochure were definitely a (Bauhaus-inspired??) design and aesthetic
high point.
Not sure how much sense a WL finder make in a rectangular film
format. I had the WL for the Contax 645 (which may? owe some of its
design to Rollei SL2000). The finder was quite useless for vertical
framing.
Jan
On Jan 24, 2012, at 1:07 AM, FreeLists Mailing List Manager wrote:
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:26:59 +0100
From: Dirk-Roger Schmitt <Dirk-Roger.Schmitt@xxxxxx>
Subject: [rollei_list] Old article about SL2000
Old Article about the launch of the SL2000.
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-14329107.html
Maybe somebody wants to read it by use of Google Translator.
Dirk
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