Thanks again.
On Apr 21, 2017 1:12 PM, "CarlosMFreaza" <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I mentioned in my previous post that 14 units from the 9x9 cm prototypes
were hand made. One of these prototypes is in the Municipal Braunschweig
Museum, it belonged to the F&H Rollei- Werke Museum up to the company
bankruptcy in 1980. Other two prototypes were mentioned as belonging to the
Rollei Club Jersey (Ian Parker); another one belonged to the collector
that provided photographs for the Evans' Rollei books, according an old
post from Todd Belcher, a former list member and Rollei cameras collector
and technician.
The Rollei books authors Ian Parker and Claus Prochnow refer a very sad
history about the third 9x9 prototype, it was given to the photographer
Solomon Kahn and he used it to a portrait series about Hitler. The
photographs exhibitions were a success up to the Nazis knew the
photographer was a jew; the photographs disappeared and the photographer
too...
Prochnow's Report 1 has some photographs taken by F&H to test the camera
and the CZ Jena 3.8/10cm Tessar lens, they look good and are contact prints
slightly reduced for the book.
The 7x9 TLR rectangular format pototype was intended for photographers
using the 6,5x9 plates and wanted to abandon them to use roll film. It was
a TLR design with a waist level finder and then an external Aldaba
viewfinder was added for the vertical format. There is an unit at the
Brunswick Municipal Museum, it belonged to the F&H museum up to the
bankruptcy. It used the 122 film and the 3,8/10cmm Tessar lens too.
A third similar prototype at the time was a 9x9 camera switchable to 7x9
via a mask on the film plane, this prototype with the mentioned Tessar and
film format is the Braunschweig Municipal Museum too, from the 1980 F&H
bankruptcy.
Carlos
2017-04-21 9:42 GMT-03:00 David Sadowski <dsadowski@xxxxxxxxx>:
Does anyone know what became of these 7x7 and 9x9 cm Rolleiflex
prototypes? How many were made, or how many might still exist?
Thanks.
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 7:32 AM, David Sadowski <dsadowski@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Thanks for the information.
On Apr 21, 2017 4:22 AM, "CarlosMFreaza" <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The article's author and replica's owner sent me some photographs in
2012. I also could take photographs about a similar replica during a travel
to Buenos Aires city in 2015, it belongs to Antique Cameras, a second hand
and old photography items shop where I bought some Rollei accesories. It
looks like the replicas had more success than the true camera, F& H had not
the success they expected for the Baby Rolleiflex, the smaller focusing
screen was one of the causes for the failure. The giant replicas are not
true cameras, BTW, this is the replica at Antique Cameras, Buenos Aires
city:
http://dobleobjetivo.blogspot.com.ar/2015/05/
These are photographs sent me by the article's author:
:http://dobleobjetivo.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/rolleiflex-4x4
-giant-replica.html
and this is the Rolleiflex telephone at Antique cameras too:
http://itarphotos.blogspot.com.ar/2012/01/rolleiflex-telephone.html
F&H built some 7x9cm and 9x9cm TLR prototypes from 1930 to 1932;14
units 9x9 cm (8.5x8.5.cm real format) were hand made, the 9x9
prototype was like an enlarged 4x4 camera, it used 122 film format to take
six pictures. Both prototypes had the Tessar 3.8/10cm taking lens.
Carlos
2017-04-20 17:19 GMT-03:00 David Sadowski <dsadowski@xxxxxxxxx>:
This article describes an oversized Rolleiflex that was a store
display, made in 1932 to promote the new 4x4 model:
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/95151-1930s-giant-ba
by-rolleiflex-4x4-promoti
According to this article, there were originally 10 of these, and the
whereabouts of several are still known.
But wasn't there also an oversized Rollei made around the same time
period that was built to take size 116 roll film?
