[rollei_list] Re: Do you know?
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 18:08:58 -0800
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From: "Carlos Manuel Freaza" <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 5:32 PM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Do you know?
--- El mié 7-ene-09, dnygr <dnygr@xxxxxxxxxx> escribió:
Don,
If you like Rolleis you'll like a Leica. The optics are
wonderful, the feel is great, and the results even better.
Doug
Perhaps that is true for most cases, however it is not my
case. I'm a Rolleiflex fan and prefer other 35mm cameras, in
fact I prefer the Rolleikin except when I really need wide
angle or tele lenses, I have excellent Pentax SMC lenses and
Carl Zeiss/Rollei/Mamiya T* HFT MC lenses for the Rolleiflex
SL35 M.Some Leica lenses could be better slightly, but the
difference, if it exists, does not justify the enormous
prices difference.
I'm not writing Leicas are not great cameras, they are great
cameras, but I'm not interested about Leicas.
I'm impressed for the Contax II range finder, it is clean
and adjusted now, the precision you obtain for focusing is
excellent even under low light; focusing a face, you can
focus on the nose or on the eyes (I only started to try the
range fincer).The wide glass block range finder base and the
two mirrors and two wedges seem to work very fine.
I heard most Leicas range finders are not so good in
comparison with the Contax range finder.
Carlos
I can't comment on the M series Leicas but the long base
on the Contax rangefinder is somewhat misleading, the Leica
screw mount camera has a small telescope (I think 1.5X)
built into its rangefinder which, in effect, duplicates the
wide base Contax. The reason the Contax does not use a
telescope is that the RF and viewfinder images are combined.
This is not to say the Contax RF is inferior, it isn't, its
just that the longer base does not really result in greater
focusing accuracy.
The Contax is certainly a more elaborate camera. In many
ways the Leica screw mount cameras are quite simple in
comparison, to both the Contax and the M series. I consider
the Leica screw mount to be a very elegant design. Partly
due to its simplicity. It is a rugged camera despite its
reputation as a delicate hot-house flower. It is also a
relatively easy camera to work on.
It certainly has some faults, for one thing the
off-center accessory shoe can cause problems with accessory
view finders for short focal length lenses. The lack of
automatic parallax correction and partially blocked view is
another problem. But, all in all, I think it is in the same
class as the Rolleiflex in terms of engineering design and
certainly in quality of manufacture.
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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