[rollei_list] Re: Rollei 3.5 MX - EVS, type 2

  • From: Carlos Manuel Freaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:03:51 +0000 (GMT)

John, interesting to know that you have the earliest
EVS version, really your camera has resisted like a
catastrophes survivor.
Nice bag the Omnica, however there are some complaints
due to several models don't allow to put the camera
with the "never" ready case.-

All the best
Carlos 
 
 


--- John Lehman <al7jj@xxxxxxxxx> escribió:

> Carlos Manuel Freaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
> 
> > ...there were three technical moments for the EVS
> > development. The first moment we can find in the
> > firsts 3.5B or MX-EVS Type 1 cameras, these
> cameras
> > have not the middle button in the diaphragm wheel
> to
> > lock-unlock the system, these cameras are from the
> > serial number 1,428,000 till 1,464,000 (this block
> > complete is till 1,499,999). These rare firsts
> MX-EVS
> > have engraved the word "Germany" in the diaphragm
> > wheel, Prochnow shows a photograph in 16-358. I
> think
> > this camera is rare today because the serial
> numbers
> > block is shared with the 2.8C.
> 
> Thank you for repeating this Carlos, I must have
> missed your first post. 
>   I was about to reply that Evans had missed the
> first variation on the 
> EVS.  I have the earliest version on a "beater"
> Rolleiflex (with a Xenar 
> lens) which I bought about 8-10 years ago to take
> along when I did not 
> want to risk one of my "good" ones (originally for
> travel in the Russian 
> Far East, altho it has survived among other things,
> a fall down a 
> Mexican pyramid, a fall into a Balinese grave, and a
> cross country 
> skiing accident involving me, two snow machines and
> a moose). Had I 
> known it was rare, I would have probably got fewer
> pictures with it :-). 
>   Back in the days when he could still work on them,
> Heinz Grasshof 
> rebuilt it for me twice.
> 
> It now sits in an Omnica Tasche (p 348 of Procnow
> vol 2) with most of my 
> Bay 1 accessories and I have a $25 MX beater from
> Ebay to take along 
> when I don't act my age (which is less common, alas,
> than it used to be).
> 
> 
> -- 
> John Lehman, College Alaska
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