[rollei_list] Re: Kranky, Rollei motor drive...Rolleimot
- From: "John Wild" <JWild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:25:08 -0000
I had a mad 'senior moment' and bought a Rolleimot for my SL66 a few
years ago. It is the same as the Rolleimot for the TLR except that it
has an additional base plate which attatches to the SL66 quick mount
base and an adapter plate for the winder coupling because cycle of the
TLR and SL66 winders start from a different angular point.
The base holds the batteries and the vertical box holds the V-Twin 18hp
Kohler air cooled engine (only joking) drive motor.
I read somewhere that these were originally developed by Rollei to test
cycle the wind mechanism ' to destruction'. Employees' hands would fail
long before a camera, so a better method had to be devised. Some were
sold but they were not a popular accessory for a camera with only 12
exposures. Any other ideas?
Best wishes
John Wild
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Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Kranky, Rollei motor drive...Rolleimot
That is the Rolleimot. There are the Rolleimot 1, 2, and 3; the
Rolleimot purposes are the camera shutter release and to advance the
film to the next frame cocking the shutter for a new release. You can
shoot up to 200 metres (according WD Emanuel, Prochnow 10 m) from the
camera via special cable and up to 3m with the standard cable; the
interval between shots are about 3.5 seconds, they use four batteries
U2.
The Rolleimot 1 was dedicated to Rolleiflex 2.8 and 3.5 cameras and
Tele, Wide and Rolleimagic; the Rollimot 2 for the same cameras more
these cameras provided with the special 150 frames Magazine
manufactured by Flashpot France; the Rolleimot 3 was for the Rollei SL
66, they were manufactured from 1963 to 1969.
You can see here a Rolleimot:
http://www.collectcamera.com/pagesrollei/misc/rolleimotc.htm
All the best
Carlos
2007/3/13, Laurence Cuffe <cuffe@xxxxxxx>:
Mr Bigler's Coments on the meaning of "Cranky" amused me. They
also brought to mind a poster of Rollei models which I saw on the wall
in Nippon Photo Clinic on broadway, when I was bringing in my F3 for
service yesterday. What intrigued me was some models of the tlr
beginning around the nineteen sixties. These appeared to have a large
rectangular base, and a cylindrical protrusion on the side where the
crank would be on the camera. I assume that these were motor driven
models, but I wonder what was their original use. They seemed as though
they were designed to be shot from a fixed location as the whole
arrangement seemed far to unwieldy to hand hold.
All the best
Larry Cuffe
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