[rollei_list] Re: Rolleiflex SL 35 E
- From: CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 16:47:09 -0300
2014-03-01 14:53 GMT-03:00 Hauke Fath <hauke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>...
> I found a biography(*) of Heinz Waaske on the local Darmstadt photo fair
> about three years ago (should have bought a second copy for myself...). The
> book does not mention him in the context of the Rolleiflex SL35* series at
> all - I paid special attention to that.
Yes, I wrote it in my previous post, but I was not sure about it. I
checked Prochnow's Rollei Report 3 book now, he does not mention Heinz
Waaske regarding the SL 35 E camera
> He designed the A26 126 viewfinder,
> but I am not sure he had a hand in the SL26 (too butt-ugly, IMHO).
"..Design chief Richard Weiss entrusted him (Heinz Waaske) with the
design of a new SLR for 28x28mm cartridge film, the later Rolleiflex
SL 26..." (Rollei 35, a camera history, Claus Prochnow, page 37). It
was the first task for HW when he joined Rollei in January 1965,
however he disclosed his small 35mm camera protoype in March 1965 and
had to stop work on the SL26 to work on his camera, the Rollei 35. He
started to design the SL 26 anyway, if you look at it, it has some
similarity with the Rollei 35, but controls, finishing and size are
different (I don't like it, BTW). Claus Prochnow was friend of Heinz
Waaske. The known photograph about Heinz Waaske smiling and holding
and showing his small camera prototype was taken by Prochnow.
Carlos
> His last project with F&H was the Rolleimatic, after which he left the
> company (~1978, the wikipedia says), and worked as a freelance designer
> with various other camera manufacturers.
>
> hauke
>
>
> (*) Eikmann, J., Voigt, U: Kameras für Millionen, Heinz Waaske:
> Konstrukteur, Wittig 1997
>
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