[rollei_list] Re: Rollei Breakers yard
- From: Don Williams <dwilli10@xxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:14:00 -0500
At 10:26 AM 9/13/2017, you wrote:
Hey stay cool. I'am 55 ;-)
Hello from the top side of 85. I seem to still be lucid but sold my
last Rollei (and Rolleimarin) to a professional diver a few years
back. Still have a few filters, hoods, and original Rolleiflash left
as well as a couple of projectors, including a Balomatic. And, as
usual with most folks out there, I am overloaded with 35mm stuff
which should be sold to folks who will actually use it. (When we
moved from La Jolla to Oklahoma in 2007, I purposely left my beloved
Omega B-22 in the house.)
My first Rollei was a 2.8C, bought in Hong Kong during my first navy
tour. I had bypassed the Nikons and Cannons (~$135 in the Yokosuka
Navy sales building). In Hong Kong I got the camera and every
accessory for something around $300. No case, not available. I
later had to change to a 3.5F to fit the Rolleimarin IV.
After the Navy and a job in North Hollywood, I moved to San Diego and
was able to build a darkroom in the garage. Before then I had always
worked in a bedroom, using whatever I could to block the light around
window shades. No ventilation, just lots of fumes, including mercury
vapor. (Old timers will understand what I was trying to do with mercury.)
Anyhow, I'm still wading through around 5-6,000 negatives, slides,
prints, whatever, in several formats, and doing just digital. I'm
finding things from around 1940, fun. I try to scan and put things
up on OneDrive for my kids but they only react to a limited portion
of what I think is "important".
Works for me and I get my Rollei fix from this group.
DAW~
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