[rollei_list] Re: The new Tele- Rolleiflex FT 4.00
- From: Mark Rabiner <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:00:43 -0400
> Last January 2008 Club Rollei User magazine (very well
> edited by John Wild) has a good portrait taken with
> the new Rolleiflex FT Schneider Tele-Xenar 4/135 in
> the cover, despite the photograph has suffered the
> pre-press and printing process it looks an impressive
> sharpness, and colors and contrast are excellent, you
> can see the image was taken using an outstanding lens.
> The magazine has an article written by Denis Camp (
> the cover portrait photographer and a Rolleiflex FT
> owner) about the new camera where you can see more
> photographs taken with the camera, all them showing
> the superb lens quality. The author comments he went
> to the factory at Braunschweig to get his camera last
> November, he says the FT is indeed a real pleasure to
> use, the bright High-D-Screen with the split-image
> rangefinder make focusing very easy and very sharp,
> the 1.5m closest focusing distance makes tight framing
> very easy too. The camera was designed for classical
> portraiture and it=B9s very suitable for still life work
> and is very good like studio camera, the author thinks
> the FT is quite heavy.
> As specialist camera, the FT price is high (I=B9d say
> very high, it exceeds 5000 euros), Franke and Heidecke
> GmbH are producing the camera in small numbers per
> year.
> I add to the article that the Schneider Tele-Xenar
> 4/135 is a new lens designed for the Rolleiflex FT
> specially, it seems a superb lens really.-
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Even if they're selling their cameras for $7,683.74925104844 cents a tele
pop Its a minor miracle against all known logic that Rollei could still be
making new Rolleiflexes let alone wide or tele ones in this day and age.
I'm sure glad for it.
I don't look at EBay what do used Tele Rollei's go for?
Mark William Rabiner
markrabiner.com
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