[rollei_list] Re: "There is a 220 Rollei T"
- From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:17:44 -0700
Peter,
I will call your bluff! Come to La Jolla and I will show you the
24x36 Horizontal mask!
Or buy it if you feel it is cheaper to spent $10 than to fly from San
Jose to San Diego or pay the $3.28 per gallon for 92 octane, and
drive here and I will give it to you! Gratis! Free!
Jerry
"Peter K." wrote:
> Dude. I do not think you can do 24 exp on a 120 roll unless they are
> 6x3cm format. A real oddity.
>
> On 4/22/05, Ardeshir Mehta <ardeshir@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Friday, April 22, 2005, at 09:34 PM, David Seifert wrote:
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> > > Ardeshir,
> > >
> > > Just for you, I look this up again. According to Prochnow in Rollei
> > > Report 2 page 409 there were 250 units of this type built in June
> > > 1961. He notes that these were "Direktverkauf, nicht gelistet", direct
> > > sale, no price listed. I interpret that to mean that these were a
> > > custom order batch. The customer is not mentioned. They used 120 film
> > > and produced either 12 6x6 images per roll or 24 24x36 images per roll
> > > using the special mask kit. Thus, they had a 12/24 frame counter.
> > >
> > > For the record, the standard model of that run (56,000 units) came
> > > with a 12/16 frame counter equipped to do 12 or 16 exposures per 120
> > > roll. The mask kit produced 16 4.5x5 images.
> > >
> > > Thus spake Prochnow!
> > >
> > > David
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> > Thank you, David. Kind of you. The custom order explains it. I had no
> > idea that they could do 24 exposures on a 120 roll. The 16-exposure
> > mask, however, I knew about.
> >=20
> > Thanks again for taking the trouble.
> >=20
> > Cheers,
> >=20
> > A.
> >=20
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>
> --=20
> Peter K
> =D3=BF=D5=AC
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