[rollei_list] Re: Query: Mechancial Cameras
- From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 13:17:41 -0700
Peter,
It is a very small, all machined aluminium camera,
designed to take 35mm GLASS PLATES. It was
made the Swiss watchmaker, Jaeger-LeCoultre for
a British company, before WW2.
Jerry
"Peter K." wrote:
> Hi Jerry,
>
> Tell me, what is a Compass camera?
>
> Peter K
>
> On Apr 11, 2005 12:54 PM, Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Mak,
> >=20
> > I'll bet that those Tessinas are leftovers from the first
> > production run in 1960! Has anyone ever seen one
> > being used?
> >=20
> > 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
> >=20
> > mak@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >=20
> > > 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.
> >=20
> >=20
>
> --=20
> Peter K
> =D3=BF=D5=AC
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