[rollei_list] Re: Rollei and the saga of their SLR
- From: CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:37:10 -0300
If you are talking about Ian Parker's article on the SL 66, when he
talks on the "German camera", he is talking about the camera that
Victor Hasselblad take as sample for his prototype, he says that the
camera had a 80mm fixed lens.
Regarding the first Rollei SLR prototype, Ian Parker writes:"Rollei
decided that the Hasselblad
design had merits, so Herr Weiss was asked to design a
Rollei medium format SLR. Carl Zeiss were asked to tender for a lens
for this camera, _in fact similar lenses as supplied to Victor
Hasselblad_".
The article is on the SL 66, and there is a typo, Ian Parker writes:
"Ian Carron, now a retired photographic dealer in Australia will
remember Rollei showing him _the new SL66 in _1956_ and telling him
that this camera will surely
be a Hasselblad killer! It was not. The focal plane shutter primarily
doomed it from the start". BTW, the SL 66 was introduced in 1966, not
1956.-
I have the original printed magazine.
Carlos
2010/4/11 Peter K. <peterk727@xxxxxxxxx>:
> http://www.rollei.org.uk/CRU_Issue4.pdf
>
> Interesting reading. Apparently the original SLR was developed in 1956 and
> did not have interchangeable lenses, even as an SLR.
>
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