[rollei_list] Re: [rollei_list]

  • From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:41:06 -0500

At 04:27 PM 1/25/2007, Jeff Kelley wrote:
>Richard, (and Marc)
>
>Was the Xenar available pre-WWII?
>
>This site doen't make that clear:
>http://www.siufai.dds.nl/Rolleiflex35_TLR.htm
>
>I remember somewhere seeing scans of old catalogs with the Xenar listed a
>few dollars less than the Tessar but don't remember the camera model or the
>timeframe....

The Xenar was only available on Postwar cameras. The pricing of JSK versus Zeiss lensed models varied a bit over the years: sometimes the Xenotar-equipped 3.5 and 2.8 cameras sold for more than did the Zeiss-equipped models.

Marc


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