[rollei_list] Re: A chortle of delight, and other ramblings
- From: "Neil Gould" <neil@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:22:48 -0500
Recently, you wrote:
>
> From: bigler@xxxxxxxx
>
>> From Johm Owlett :
>
>> ..I have yielded to temptation and bought a 120-only
>> 3.5F Xenotar Whiteface in the 2853xxx range.
>
> Congratulations Mr. Owlett. Nobody here cannot but agree with you at
> ... 120-% ;-)
>
>> It's all Nikon's fault....A new Nikon D2X would cost me seven times
>> as much as a good-condition Hasselblad or Rolleiflex!
>
> Rollei-TLR aficionados seriously consider switching to digital some
> day but only when those technical and economical conditions will be
> fulfilled
>
> 1/ the silicon sensor shall cover a true 56x56 mm image size and will
> be housed in a Rollei TLR interchangeable back similar to special
> R-TLR film back for cut film and glass plates. At that time Rollei
> will be forced to re-introduce the interchangeable glass plate back no
> longer available for the 2,8GX and FX !!
> Of course, the number of pixels shall not be smaller than 30 million.
>
> 2/ The energy required to take and store one picture will be provided
> by a single stroke of a Rollei winding crank coupled to a miniature
> electrical generator similar to the one used in recent white-LED-based
> pocket camping lamps you can find now in rounds-the-corner
> supermakets; it will be considered acceptable if the crank has to be
> winded about 10 turns forward, every 12 frames, in order to keep the
> stored energy at a reasonable level.
>
> 3/ the price of the silicon image detector shall not exceed the sum
> spent in 120 rollfims by a decent Rollei aficionado in 5 years.
>
4/ the TLR digital back shall not alter the balance of the film-based TLR.
5/ the weight of the system shall not increase by more than 10%
... as long as we're dreaming!
Neil
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