[rollei_list] Re: The Tragedy of the SL66

Excellent work Mike!! Quite reminscent of Edeltraud and Othmar Danesch's nature photography who use the SL66 extensively in the 60s and 70s. What meter do you use outdoors with you meterless SL66? Did you try the awkward chimney meter of the original SL66? Makes me want to get my SL66SE back... ;-(
Marc: IMHO I think it's quite inconceivable that Rollei would have produced a 6x6 SLR in the 50s given the strong professional prejudice against SLRs that lasted until the Nikon F succeeded. Zeiss of course made a similar mistake by waiting too long to come out with the fully modular Contarex until 1960 (61?). And what a beast it was compared to the Nikon. The SL66 was way to costly in 1965 and the meter finder came out somewhat later and was too large. Expensive or not, I know of at least two advanced amateurs in my (mid-size) home town in Germany who owned SL66s in the 70s. One was an artist (Paul Seuthe) whos SL66 I bought from him shortly before he passed away in the early 1990s. 
Jan

On 17 Apr 2007, at 02:29, FreeLists Mailing List Manager wrote:

Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:20:27 -0400
From: Mike Kovacs <mskovacs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: The Tragedy of the SL66
A very nice post Marc.
The SL66 is a first-class professional tool.  ....
Let me help Charlie Barringer with his teeth gnashing and turn that into 
some positive action :)

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