[rollei_list] Re: Rollei SL2000F and 3003: VERY LONG
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:42:49 -0400
At 09:16 AM 3/30/2010, CarlosMFreaza wrote:
>Interesing good piece of work Marc, however as you wrote Prochnow
>tells a different history in the Report 3. About June 1974 the new
>Rollei CEO Dr. Heinrich Peesel had talkings with Messrs Franzmann, an
>architect studio from Hamburg, they presented some ideas about a
>"cubic" camera with motor and modular design. In a second meeting in
>August 1974 they presented to Rollei a prototype shown in the page
>44-850. This prototype had similarity with the SLX camera and looked
>like a mini MF SLR camera. Rollei became interested about the first
>prototype developing. Franzmann original idea was about a mechanical
>camera with additional motor, Rollei decided to introduce several of
>the Rolleiflex SL 35E and a few of SLX electronics to the prototype,
>Franzmann prototype only was the cubic body almost empty with a few
>parts. Dr. Alster from Rollei had examined the prototype and there was
>enthusiasm about the idea. The camera developing had problems due to
>some electronics parts. Ernst Moeckl,. linked to Rollei through some
>cameras and projectors design, finished the prototype in 1977, however
>the developing work was ready at the ending of 1979 and in October
>1980 the camera SL 2000F and 2000 F motor started their regular
>production, according Prochnow keeping the highest quality standards
>and they were made in Germany only, he describes the developing along
>four pages with photographs, data and dates.
And, again, this is bogus, Carlos. The few
remaining Zeiss Ikon records -- and the few Zeiss
Ikon executives of the time who are still around
-- make that certain. Yeah, RolleiLunatics
really DO want to believe the 2000F was an
internal invention but the surviving historical
record makes this a really bogus claim.
Back when Prochnow was alive, I asked you to put
me in touch with him over this issue, and you
failed to do so. I really would have enjoyed
sharing a beer with you and Prochnow and Wolf
Wehren over the demise of Zeiss Ikon. We all would have learned a lot!
If this is NOT true, why did Zeiss Ikon present a
working SL 2000F at the 1972 Photokina? One of
our List members picked it up and played with it, and it worked.
If you want to agree that Zeiss Ikon passed on a
one-off hand-made camera to Rolleiflex in 1974, I
have no problem. But the camera did work --
again, one of our members used it and it worked
for him -- and then Rolleiflex had to reinvent
the wheel to turn this into a commercial product,
I have no problem -- there is a surviving memo to
the Zeiss Foundation from Zeiss Ikon in 1971
spelling out the problems they would have in producing this in real-time.
But to suggest, as your RolleiFanatics do, that
the SL 2000F was an internal Rollei development
is so much gibberish. Let us accept the
magnificent efforts Rollei made to perfect an
imperfect Zeiss Ikon product. The historical
record on this is clear. Let us not ever
disregard the work of Prochnow but he was just flat wrong on this.
You have not read my book?
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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