[rollei_list] Re: Rollei and the saga of their SLR
- From: "Peter K." <peterk727@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:49:03 -0700
Yes, you are right the SL66 was 1966.
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 5:37 PM, CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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