[rollei_list] Re: Rolleiflex SL 35 E
- From: Cmfreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 11:13:48 -0300
Two points(I am writing vía cell Phone from the farm): 1) Rollei electronic
shutter was a Rollei development, it has a symmetric design, it means shutter
drive is distributed on both shutter sides allowing to fit the lens at the
exact center of the camera body, it was thought for 2000/3000 cameras but the
vsl3E and Sl35 E also have the lens at the exact center of the body, an unique
feature at the time. Seiko and Copal electronic shutters had the drive on one
of the sides only and then the lens position was not at the exact center.
Rollei Fototechnic used the Rollei electronic shutter manufactured in the
Singapore era for the 2000/3003 cameras due to the reason explained above. It
would be too expensive to change the camera body design to use a Japanese
electronic shutter.
2) The Rollei SL 35 _doesn't have open aperture light meter reading _, you need
to press a dedicated button to close the diaphragm for the light meter. It was
the SL 350 model that added open aperture metering
SL35 and SL35 E are two different cameras. The first one is a nice mechanical
camera, the E is an electronic camera among the more complete of its time:
shutter speeds from 1/1000 to 16 seconds, automatic or manual, two mechanical
shutter x 1/125 and B, memory lock, electronic self timer, exposure
compensation, film counter only works with film and you can see the frames
numbers when you are rewinding the film, multiexposure capability and two motor
drives were available to advance the film.
Carlos
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De: "Hauke Fath" <hauke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Enviado el: 03/03/2014 05:27 a.m.
Para: "rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Asunto: [rollei_list] Re: Rolleiflex SL 35 E
On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 16:07:24 -0600, Raid wrote:
> The 2000F is a camera with short life. It is destined to die on you,
My impression from online statements is that there is a risk of
flakiness. The major common element of the SL35E, the 2000F and the
3003 is the electronic shutter (probably Voigtländer derived?), which,
while elegant, had never really shaken its bugs out properly. It is my
understanding that Rollei Fototechnic lived off a pile of
Singapore-built shutters while continuing the 2000F and then the 3003,
and canned the 135 SLR when that pile was gone. I.e. the shutter never
was substantially improved over the late-70s state.
My personal experience with the 3003, which was my main camera for
fifteen years, includes stickiness of exposure buttons, and film
transport issues. No catastrophic failures, no "die on my hands". On
the other hand, I probably would not have had to send in, say, a Nikon
F3 for service every two or three years. And when Stiftung Warentest,
the German state consumer test institution, ran the top SLRs against
each other in the early eighties (Canon F1, Pentax LX, Nikon F3,
Rolleiflex 2000F, probably some Leica model), the Rolleiflex was the
first to drop out during long-term tests.
> The SL35 is the cameraw ith the second best reliability of all
> Rolleiflex 35mm SLR cameras.
Its appeal is certainly that it is all mechanics, thus fixable, where
the SL35E comes with a history of electronics flakiness, and there are
no solid state replacement parts.
OTOH, in terms of usability, the SL35 falls way short of the SL35E -
open aperture measurement, exposure automatics, the meter
characteristics I described.
hauke
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Hauke Fath <hauke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Ernst-Ludwig-Straße 15
64625 Bensheim
Germany
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