[rollei_list] Re: question on operating and on screen for Rollei GX and Hood

  • From: Craig Semetko <csemetko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 14:02:48 -0700

>>  Buy the 2,8D.

Is the only difference between the "C" and the "D" the EVS system? Not 
sure what that does, exactly, nor if I need it.


On May 18, 2005, at 9:48 PM, Lord Harrington wrote:

>
>
>>
>> Before I get too ahead of myself, though, I have to ask myself one 
>> more
>> time: "To 'C' or not to 'C'--that is the question." Yes, if I get
>> another Rollei it will be a "C." But I have an excellent example of 
>> the
>> Automat with a 75mm Zeiss Opton Tessar (I mistakenly said "Xenar" in 
>> my
>> earlier post) that works very well. It does have trouble moving to the
>> 500 shutter speed, and the viewfinder is pretty dark, but the pictures
>> look excellent. Cosmetically my camera is about a 9 and a half out of
>> 10.
>>
> Absolutely, buy the best you able afford. Indubitably it better have
> the 2,8 if only to intimidate other Photographers, sort of like showing
> at a garten party with an attractive lass in a pink sun dress on your
> arm.   If the camera not cocked, that is ready fyre a shot, the levre
> shall move more easily to the 500 shutter speed mode.  Whence cock'd it
> a damn site more difficult.  Typically after three gin and tonics and a
> pair of States Side made channel lock pliers the knob shall move more
> freely.  Buy the 2,8D.
>>
>> I guess what I'm asking is, is it worth the extra money/hassle to find
>> a "C" in good shape? Either way I go, that is, keeping what I have or
>> getting a C, I am sure I will be investing in an overhaul and Maxwell
>> screen. I would like the added 5mm  for portraits, but I primarily use
>> Tri-X so I wonder if I'll utilize the 2.8 that often. Basically, I'm
>> wondering what your opinions are on whether I should keep what I have
>> and get it overhauled or move "up" to a C? Is the extra half stop,
>> added 5mm in focal length, and better Xenotar lens that much
>> better/useful than the Opton Tessar I have?
>
> The more salient question is shall your wife or girlfriend be
> pissed-off when told what you spent on a camera older than her father?
> Would she not object by all means secure something impressive.  Shall
> you see a difference: Whom knows.  You shall feel better about yourself
> as it were.
>>
>
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