[rollei_list] Re: "Rollei 35mms beat both Alpas AND Leicas in the coolness department" (was: "Alpas beat Leicas hands down" (was: OT / prove it !))
- From: Nick Roberts <nickbroberts@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 09:54:55 +0100 (BST)
The 3003 is indeed extremely cool. We have discussed
here before as to if there really is any kind of
digital back for it, and I am unaware of conclusive
proof that one exists. Nevertheless, it's a
magnificent camera, and a concept that I believe
should have been developed much further.
Nick
--- Ardeshir Mehta <ardeshir@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Uh ... further to the post quoted below, I just came
> across the=20
> ABSOLUTE COOLEST 35 mm system I ever saw at =20
> <http://www.cameraquest.com/rol3003.htm>=A0- and the
> best thing is, it's=20=
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> a ROLLEI! (It can even shoot digital.)
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> Now THIS is certainly something about which one may
> say, "Cheers"!
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> +++++
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> On Friday, April 1, 2005, at 01:49 AM, Ardeshir
> Mehta wrote:
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> > On Thursday, March 31, 2005, at 11:38 AM, Douglas
> Shea wrote:
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> >> I would like to interject Alpas into this "my
> camera can beat up your=20=
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> >> camera" argument -- along with the superb array
> of lenses they=20
> >> offered.
> >>
> >> Doug
> >
> > Indeed. Alpas beat Leicas hands down in the
> "coolness" department.=20
> > Given a choice - and if I had the money, of course
> - I would pick an=20=
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> > Alpa (like an 8b, a 9d, silver, or best of all a
> 10d without crest,=20
> > again silver, as shown at=20
> > http://www.alpa.ch/alpa/history/alpa10d.html) over
> ANY Leica. (Only=20
> > 245 Alpa 8 cameras were made all in all!)
> >
> > The 11si (silver) is no slouch in the "coolness"
> department either. In=20=
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> > some ways it's the most attractive, aesthetically,
> of all. See=20
> > http://www.alpa.ch/alpa/history/alpa11si.html.
> >
> > And of course the 12 WA
> (http://www.alpa.ch/alpa/alpa12wa.htm) is a=20
> > medium format photographer's dream. "... the ALPA
> is a camera for the=20=
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> > photographer who has completely mastered his or
> her craft [...] There=20=
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> > is an immense satisfaction in this..." - so says
> the British Journal=20=
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> > of Photography, London, regarding the ALPA 12.
> "Reduced to the=20
> > essentials - the true luxury of the 21st century.
> Restraint in design.=20=
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> > Discipline in photographic work." - as Alpa's web
> site most correctly=20=
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> > puts it.
> >
> > Cheers.
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