[rollei_list] Re: Singapore-made HFT lenses

My 135 f2.8 Sonnar (S/N 3160450) is both HFT and made
in Singapore.

Nick

--- Marc James Small <msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> At 03:31 PM 4/27/06 +0000, Carlos Manuel Freaza
> wrote:
> 
> >Anyway, I have no doubt that Rollei manufactured
> >lenses with Rollei HFT multicoating for the SL 35
> and
> >the Voigtländer VSL because I had in my hands a
> Planar
> >1.8/50 HFT made by Rollei in Singapore.
> >
> >Here is a list of three lenses for Rollei 35 SL and
> >Voigtländer cameras provided with serial numbers
> >manufactured by Rollei in Singapore:
> >
> >Rollei-HFT 1100696 Made by Rollei Planar 1,8/50
> Made
> >by Rollei Singapore 
> >Rollei-HFT 1168427 Made by Rollei Planar 1,8/50
> Lens
> >made in Singapore 
> >Voigtländer COLOR-ULTRON 1,8/50 2413319 Lens made
> in
> >Singapore 
> >
> 
> First, the Voigtländer lens is not a Zeiss lens and
> is outside our present
> range of conversation.
> 
> Second, I have no question that some few HFT lenses
> were made in Singapore
> but these would be very few in number.  You have
> made the case for the
> 1.8/50 Planar and Prochnow does illustrate a
> Singapore-built 1.4/50 HFT
> Planar but I am not familiar with any other
> Singapore-produced HFT QBM
> lenses.  (For that matter, my own 1.4/50 HFT Planar
> was made in Singapore.)
> 
> Prochnow simply states that the Rollei-produced
> lenses were made at the
> "Lizenzbau" without identifying Braunschweig or
> Singapore.
> 
> I just do not believe that there was an extensive
> production of HFT QBM
> lenses, other than the 50mm Planars, in Singapore.
> 
> But I am prepared to be proven wrong!
> 
> Marc
> 
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
> 
> 
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