Peter,
As I may have said before, I once had a T that had an E side plate so that
double
exposures could be made. (the shutter could be recocked)
Jerry
"Peter K." wrote:
Hi Douglas, The T was something of a stripped down Rollei F that basically
targeted the same market as the earlier Rolleicord. The T was named for
Theodore Uhl, a choice of names that allegedly got him fired when management
at Rollei found out he named the camera after himself.I have a Rollei T
and it is among my favorites. What it lacks is 220 capability and multiple
exposure. But 220 and Multi-exposure were more for pros, and this camera was
designed for the amateur and advanced amateur market. The T came with a
Zeiss Tessar or Schneider Xenar F3.5 taking lens. It was lighter that the
standard Rollei F and had the ability to use a 6 x 4.5cm adapter (an
adapter the more expensive models could not use). Like the F it could use
the Rolleikin for 35mm film, and had a removable hood, so you could use a
prism in place of the Waist Level Finder.As someone already pointed out,
the F TLRs of the 60s and 70s were different bodies than the T. The newer FX
and GX bodies are based on the T as the tooling for the previous Fs was not
available. Personally, it is my opinion that this was smarter idea since it
was less costly to use a T chassis. Rest assured someone will disagree with
me here and tell me I am wrong even though I state this is just an opinion.
;-) Peter K
On 6/13/06, *Douglas Nygren* <dnygr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I have a Rollei and have not paid much attention to bodies, etc. It
> performs well.
>
> What is a T body? An F body? The GX, FX are recent vintage cameras,
> right?
>
> Doug
>
>
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