[rollei_list] Re: Bellows on 2.8D?
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:53:16 -0700
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From: "Roger M. Wiser" <rwiser@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 2:13 PM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Bellows on 2.8D?
Jerry / Todd , it sounds like another thing to
deteriorate or go wrong, yet I have not heard of any such
problems.
Roger
It would be interesting to know what prompted the design
change. I've never heard that the felt liner caused problems
but there were several design changes to the front mechanism
so perhaps the change was made necessary by them. Its
possible that Prochnow addresses this but I must pick my way
through the German nearly word by word so may have missed
it.
In general, bellows can be quite reliable depending on
what they are made of. Leather is notoriously subject to
drying and rotting, synthetics are not. So, one finds many
Linhof cameras needing new bellows and very few Speed
Graphics. I don't know for certain when Graflex started
using synthetic bellows but all the Anniversary and later
cameras I've seen (post 1939) have them. If the light seal
in the Rollei if of similar material its likely just as long
lived as the felt.
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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