[rollei_list] Re: Rollei 3.5 MX - EVS, type 2

John

I hate to correct you (he lied), but the Omnica Bag is shown
on page 533 of Vol. 2.  It is shown in the classification of
"Strangers Accessories".

Jerry

John Lehman wrote:

> Carlos Manuel Freaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
>
> > ...there were three technical moments for the EVS
> > development. The first moment we can find in the
> > firsts 3.5B or MX-EVS Type 1 cameras, these cameras
> > have not the middle button in the diaphragm wheel to
> > lock-unlock the system, these cameras are from the
> > serial number 1,428,000 till 1,464,000 (this block
> > complete is till 1,499,999). These rare firsts MX-EVS
> > have engraved the word "Germany" in the diaphragm
> > wheel, Prochnow shows a photograph in 16-358. I think
> > this camera is rare today because the serial numbers
> > block is shared with the 2.8C.
>
> Thank you for repeating this Carlos, I must have missed your first post.
>   I was about to reply that Evans had missed the first variation on the
> EVS.  I have the earliest version on a "beater" Rolleiflex (with a Xenar
> lens) which I bought about 8-10 years ago to take along when I did not
> want to risk one of my "good" ones (originally for travel in the Russian
> Far East, altho it has survived among other things, a fall down a
> Mexican pyramid, a fall into a Balinese grave, and a cross country
> skiing accident involving me, two snow machines and a moose). Had I
> known it was rare, I would have probably got fewer pictures with it :-).
>   Back in the days when he could still work on them, Heinz Grasshof
> rebuilt it for me twice.
>
> It now sits in an Omnica Tasche (p 348 of Procnow vol 2) with most of my
> Bay 1 accessories and I have a $25 MX beater from Ebay to take along
> when I don't act my age (which is less common, alas, than it used to be).
>
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> John Lehman, College Alaska
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