A great line-up!What a wonderful time in history for photographers (except for the loss of K64). On the way out for one method, on the way in for the other, and both useful and enjoyable.
I have a very similar Rollei 35 to yours. I've been giving my Rollei 35 a lot of attention lately.
It adequately meets the needs of a very wide range of 35mm photography.Thanks for posting the photos. It's always interesting to learn about other cameras.
Thanks Roger for the wiki search results. Elias On Oct 21, 2009, at 3:25 PM, CarlosMFreaza wrote:
This is the only digital image I took yesterday with my P&S, you can see from left to right the Contax II, Diax IIa and Rollei 35, the direct flash light caused some strange reflections, I hope to take better images with a better light to show the Diax IIa some interesting details: http://itarphotos.blogspot.com/2009/10/diax-iia-and-other-cameras.html Carlos 2009/10/21 CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>:Hi Elias,: I was trying to take some photographs with my P&S digital yesterday, but it became without battery charge after the first shot, now I'll take photographs with film cameras for the week-end probably and I'll upload some images to the web. Carlos 2009/10/21 Elias Roustom <eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx>:An now we await illustrations for this entertaining and informative text.E. On Oct 21, 2009, at 7:18 AM, CarlosMFreaza wrote:I have received yesterday a 1954/55 Diax IIa 35mm camera with XenonSchneider 2/50 lens, manufactured in the Walter Voss factory at "Ulm an der Donau" city, southwestern Germany, a real mechanical beauty. Myfather had the newer model Diax IIb with the same Xenon lens plus a Tele-Xenar 3.5/90 and a Xenagon 3.5/35mm with the additional viewfinder, this was the camera system that made me to think, fromteenager, there were no true reasons for the Leica cameras price (my father also had a Leica IIIf that he sold in 1964 when he decided to leave the photography hobby, he kept the Diax IIb outfit and the 2.8C I'm still using, he afterwards lent the Diax to a friend of him and weno longer saw the nice outfit, but I could shoot with the camera).My "new" camera has coupled rangefinder with built-in viewfinders for45-50mm and 85-90mm lenses, a dedicated Diax lens mount forinterchangeable lenses, central leaf Synchro-Compur shutter similar regarding the Synchro- Compur used for the 2.8C but CR 000 size: B 1s to 1/500, built-in self timer, MX flash synchro. The Diax IIa and IIbhave a very compact design closer to the Rollei 35 than tocontemporary Leica and Contax models, the main difference for the twomodels is that the IIb has an elegant quick lever stroke to advance the film designed by Hans Logé, the engineer that also designed the Rolleimeter and the Stereo TLR camera prototype and the Rolleimarin for this model working for F&H.The Xenon 2/50 is an excellent lens derived from the original Planar 6elements design directly, the Xenon also has 6 elements with a very similar diagram regarding the original Rudolph's Planar diagram (itdoes not mean they are identical lenses, however the design concept isidentical) and BTW it's excellent for color shots. I wrote to Peter Geisler, "Das DIAX-KAMERA-WERK Walter VossKleinbild-Kameras aus Ulm an der Donau 1947-1957" book author, that in spite of prices difference "... Diax cameras design look more compactand modern than some Leica and Contax contemporary models...", he answered: "I fully agree". Carlos --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list--- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx- Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe'in thesubject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org- Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with'unsubscribe' in thesubject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list--- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org- Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list
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