[rollei_list] Re: Thinking about buying a Rollei
- From: Nick Roberts <nickbroberts@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:51:03 +0000 (GMT)
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
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From: Roger Wiser <rwiser@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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
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From: "Stephen Attaway" <attaway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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