[rollei_list] Re: Rollei SL2000F and 3003: VERY LONG
- From: CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:36:14 -0300
The 2000F was not a Rollei internal invention, it was a prototype
presented to Rollei as Heinz Waaske presented the Rollei 35 prototype,
with the difference the Rollei 35 prototype was almost ready to
production, the photographs shown in the Report 3 and the work that
Prochnow made with others to develop the prototypes are not bogus,
anyway it is not impossible the architect Franzmann took the idea from
some previous camera.
When you asked me about that contact with Prochnow he already was very
ill, he wrote me at the time that Rollei was something very far away
in the time to him.
BTW a beer is always a good thing.
Carlos
2010/3/30 Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 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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