[rollei_list] Re: The Tragedy of the SL66

--- Jan Decher <Jan.Decher@xxxxxxx> escribió:
> "Marc: IMHO I think it's quite inconceivable that
> Rollei would have  
> produced a 6x6 SLR in the 50s...."

In fact F&H produced a 6x6 SLR earlier prototype
between 1955 and 1957 (photograph shown in Rollei
Report II, Richard Weiss and Prochnow and others
worked on the prototype) ) ; according Prochnow there
was a gentlemen agreement between Reinhold Heidecke
and Victor Hasselblad when Heidecke visited Hasselblad
in Göteborg, according this gentlemen agreement
Hasselblad never would produce a TLR camera and Rollei
never a SLR camera and then the Rollei SLR prototype
never advanced during the '50s.
After Heidecke's death in 1960 Rollei management
wanted a SLR and the SL 66 was manufactured finally.
The SL 66 has nothing to do with the first prototype
from the '50s, however the designers respected the
original Heidecke wishes for the SRL: the main camera
controls placement similar regarding the TLR, the
focusing knob on the left, the film advance on the
right and the shutter button release down on the right
corner.-

All the best
Carlos 


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