[rollei_list] Re: Thinking about buying a Rollei

  • From: David Dodge <dannysoar@xxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:14:25 -0400

I'm with everyone about the gears. I have a Mamiya 220 and a Flexaret with lens scratches, and they both are more pleasent to wind. What made me buy the Yashica was the condition and the seller standing behind it. Sometimes I regret being practical.

I never did find out why the Automats were so much cheaper than the other Rolleis.
David


Nick Roberts wrote:

My 124G gears have gone - I can't be bothered to get it fixed, as Rolleis are 
just so much nicer to shoot with IMHO - it's just the feel of quality 
engineering at work. The Yash is perfectly capable, though.

Nick

----- Original Message ----
From: Roger Wiser <rwiser@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, 18 September, 2006 11:46:41 AM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Thinking about buying a Rollei


Steve, You are correct in your analysis on the gears .. and I understand that they are more flimsy than the Rollei gears but I never had a Yash that wore out but I had a Rolleiflex F with a gear failure but I suspect that it was from heavy use by the prior owner.




Roger

----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Attaway" <attaway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 9:48 PM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Thinking about buying a Rollei





Richard:

Absolutely nothing wrong with a Yashicamat. Check the slow shutter speeds, run a film or two through her to make sure the advance is working properly, focus is good, no light leaks and you are good to go.

The Yashicamat has a very fine four element lens very like a Tessar in performance. It has a fresnel in the view screen already, so you don't have to buy one. I found the shutter and diaphram wheels on my old Yashicamat LM very smooth and preferred them to my Rolleicord V's lvs shutter.

The only drawback to the camera is that the film advance gears make rude cheap noises very like a Japanese tin robot being wound. But then, you can probably another Yashicamat or two for the cost of servicing a Rollei's film advance.

Stephen

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