[rollei_list] Re: Query: Mechancial Cameras
- From: "Peter K." <peterk727@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 13:00:09 -0700
Hi Jerry,
Tell me, what is a Compass camera?
Peter K
On Apr 11, 2005 12:54 PM, Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mak,
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> I'll bet that those Tessinas are leftovers from the first
> production run in 1960! Has anyone ever seen one
> being used?
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> I did see one at a La Jolla garage sale, several years
> ago. No one bought it at $50. There was a Compass
> camera at $100, but someone beat me to it.
>=20
> Jerry
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> mak@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> > Keiv still lists/makes the Kiev 19m, a Nikon M mount mechanical SLR and=
the Kiev 60 and 88 series of mechanical MF cameras, Hasselblad still makes=
the V Series, NMikon makes the FM3a which has a full range of mechanical s=
peeds, Fed still makes the Fed 5/B/C Leica copy, Leica makes the MP, Rollei=
as mentioned cranks out their TLR, Seagull/Phoenix in China still make the=
TLRs and a Minolta SR copy, Tessina is still around...
> >
> > wow not many left are there?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ardeshir Mehta <ardeshir@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Apr 10, 2005 11:35 PM
> > To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Query: Mechancial Cameras
> >
> > On Monday, April 11, 2005, at 01:18 AM, David Seifert wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, but the actual cameras haven't been "made" in decades.
> > >
> > > David
> >
> > Well, they were certainly being made as late as 1999 - see=3D20
> > <http://www.cameraquest.com/rusky2.htm>. Their quality seems to be=3D20
> > improving as well. The author of this web site, Stephen Gandy, writes=
=3D20
> > (in 2002): "Holy shades of Wetzlar! This fake is so well done that it=
=3D20
> > is not that hard to believe it might have been a son of Wetzlar." And:=
=3D20=3D
> >
> > "What is astounding about this camera to me is the VERY high quality of=
=3D20=3D
> >
> > the chrome. It is much higher than I have ever seen on any Russian=3D20
> > camera before. In fact, the chrome on this camera is good enough to=3D2=
0
> > pass with most people as original Leica! Believe it or don't."
> >
> > Who knows, some years down the road we may see fake Leicas even BETTER=
=3D20=3D
> >
> > made than the real ones of yore ...=3DA0!=3DA0;-)
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> > +++++
> >
> > > Ardeshir Mehta wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Sunday, April 10, 2005, at 08:23 PM, Eric Goldstein wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Marc James Small:
> > >>>
> > >>>> Now that Leica has apparently abandoned the production of a=3D20
> > >>>> mechanical camera, who still makes such? Rollei still cranks out a=
=3D20=3D
> >
> > >>>> bare few of its TLR cameras but, all in all, who is left?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Marc
> > >>>
> > >>> Cosina Voigtlander, which Rollei, Zeiss and others rebadge as their=
=3D20=3D
> >
> > >>> own... My my what a long strange journey we are on...
> > >>
> > >> Oh, and let's not forget the fake Leicas (including the Luftwaffe,=
=3D20
> > >> SS, gold-plated, etc. "versions") from Russia. They're ALL >> =3D
> > mechanical!
> > >>
> > >> Cheers.
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Peter K
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