[rollei_list] Re: Whiteface T with Xenar question
- From: Carlos Manuel Freaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:27:15 -0700 (PDT)
Hi John:
Now we know why Prochnow did not include the T Xenar in the Report 2
first edition, Ian Parker got the papers!.
Anyway I would be careful with some factory files, the original RolleiClub web
site had very bad info about some Rollei TLR models because they used factory
files that did not represent the real models description and production
numbers, I'm not saying this is the case for Parker's T papers, but it could be
at least partially. For example, the first factory production file for the GX
said it has 12/24 film frames counter and selftimer and it was not true, or
some factory files mention F models with Xenar and Tessar lenses and it was not
true, Rollei changed the model data file according the real camera
pre-producing prototypes were changing and then there are several data files
for the same model and only one is true.
There are cameras serial blocks shared between different camera models and
spare parts and non camera products, there are serial numbers blocks scheduled
for a model that Rollei never used or there are serial numbers blocks Rollei
needed to add to increase the production scheduled previously (the 2.8C is an
example).
Rollei contract with Carl Zeiss to CZ to provide standard lenses for the TLR
models finished in 1972, CZ no longer would manufacture high quality standard
lenses with simple or double layer coatings, they only would manufacture
multilayer coating lenses and then Rollei found these multicoated lenses
expensive too much for the TLR, they had new projects with Carl Zeiss for other
camera models (f.e. Rollei 35, Rollei SL 35 and Rollei SL 66)and then Rollei
did not renew the contract with Carl Zeiss for the TLR standard lenses, except
for the Sonnar dedicated to the Tele Rollei, a special lens for this camera
manfuctured up to the middle of 1975; the TLR sales diminished continously and
they decided to contract the lenses with Schneider only, it was the reason for
the T Xenar. In 1973 there still were brand new TLR cameras with CZ lenses
because Rollei Werke had them in stock, but it no longer happened after 1973
and up to Rollei Werke 1980/81 bnakruptcy.
Carlos
--- El jue 19-mar-09, John Wild <jwild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:
> According to a schedule list, which Ian Parker got from the
> factory, batch
> 2315000 to 2315999 (1000 cameras) was started on 6th
> September 1971 with
> factory production code UFP1. Some of these were fitted
> with the Tessar lens
> until stocks ran out and then were fitted with the Xenar
> 75mm f3.5 lens as
> used in the Rolleicord Vb.
>
> From then on all batches were fitted with Xenar lenses.....
>
> Batch 2316000 to 2316999 (1000 cameras) was started on 25th
> January 1972
> with production code UFP2
> Batch 2317000 to 2317999 (1000 cameras) was started on 20th
> July 1972 with
> production code UFP3
> Batch 2318000 to 2318999 (1000 cameras) was started on 12th
> March 1973 with
> production code UFP4
> Batch 2319000 to 2319499 (500 cameras) was started on 2nd
> February 1974 with
> production code UFP5
> Batch 2319500 to 2319999 (500 cameras) was started on 4th
> May 1975 with
> production code UFP6
>
> Ian Parker states with reference to the cameras produced
> with production
> codes starting with UFP1 ³The last production of the
> Rolleiflex T was an
> order for 3500 cameras over a five year period from the
> British Ministry of
> Defence. All these cameras used a new front-plate inscribed
> ³MADE IN GERMANY
> ROLLEI-WERKE FRANKE & HEIDECKE² followed by the serial
> number preceded by
> the letter T........... After the remaining stock of Tessar
> lenses had been
> used, Schneider Xenar 75mm f3.5 lenses as used in the
> Rolleicord Vb still in
> production, were substituted. The number of ŒT¹ cameras
> actually
> manufactured with Xenar lenses is approximately 4640. The
> over production
> run of this order being 1140 were sold through Rollei
> agents²
>
> So Sanders¹ ŒT¹ was probably made in May or June 1972
>
> I have a copy of the full schedule of 125,026
> RolleiflexŒT¹ camera
> production which I hope to type up at some point.
>
> John
>
>
>
> On 18/03/2009 20:15, "sanders@xxxxxxxxx"
> <sanders@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I just won a Whiteface T, a very late model
> > (s/n T2316742) and to my surprise it sports
> > a Xenar taking lens -- not the reformulated
> > Tessar that I had expected. Did the Xenars
> > of the 1970s make any improvements on their
> > 1950s-era forebears? Any thoughts about
> > the Xenars on late Ts would be appreciated.
> >
> > Sanders
> >
> >
> >
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