[rollei_list] Re: Old article about SL2000 - 3000
- From: John Wild <JWild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:05:25 +0000
Carlos,
I have heard commented that there were many, many 3000 cameras that Rollei
could not sell and they were destroyed so as not to devalue the Rollei image
by selling them cheaply. There were many 'special offers' around the 3003
and they also produced the cheaper 3001 cameras with only one viewfinder.
Although the 3003 is marked 'Made in Germany', that is on the removable
serial number/tripod coupling plate. The 3000 is almost identical to the
2000 but with a side handle and additional release on the top. If they were
made in bulk in Singapore and the stock brought back to Germany, the housing
could have been modified and sold as 3003 cameras; there may well have been
a lot of cameras...
John
On 24/01/2012 11:54, "CarlosMFreaza" <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Perhaps it is not a well known fact that the Rollei electronic shutter
> used for the 2000, 3003 and 3001 cameras during the Rollei Fototechnic
> era was only made in Singapore before the bankruptcy process in 1981.
> During the seventies Seiko and Copal became the main electronic
> shutter suppliers for 35mm cameras and Rollei wanted its own
> electronic shutter thinking in the cubic camera mainly, and then they
> developed the symmetrical electronic shutter with the control
> components distributed on both shutter sides, while Japanese shutters
> had these components on one of the sides only, Rollei symmetrical
> shutter was specially suitable for the cubic camera with the lens
> mount at the center of the camera front face, anyway this shutter was
> used for the Rolleiflex and Voigtländer E cameras for the first time.
> Rollei Singapore had made a lot of electronic shutters thinking about
> the 2000F production and Rollei Fototechnic became this inventory
> owner, they used the shutters for the 2000 and 3000 cameras production
> because to reassume the shutters production in Braunschweig would be
> expensive too much. In 1994 the shutters inventory was running out and
> Rollei decided to stop the 3000 cameras production, there was still a
> market for this model but it was not large enough to invest for new
> shutters manufacture or to invest for camera body modifications to
> allow the electronic Japanese shutters use.
>
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