Hello Richard:
I agree with you 35mm color film gave a significative
impulse for the Rolleikin improvement and production, however the first
Rolleikin prototype was introduced in 1932 and the first Rolleikin version
for the Rolleiflex camera was produced from 1933 up to 1934, before Kodak
and Agfa introduced the firsts color films with significant commercial
success in 1935/36. "The company stressed the following sales points
(talking about the Rolleikin):Film can be cut after any frame and the rest
still be used. Use of all packing types such as daylight-loading
cartridges, daylight-loading refills and bulk film. In 1939, one more point
was added: The Rolleikin is a valuable accessory for color photography
because the new color films - Agfacolor - New and Kodachrome- are presently
available only as 35mm film" (Rollei Report I, Claus Prochnow, page 12-263,
quoting F&H advertisements at the time). The initial main reason to build
the Rolleikin was the Leica and Contax cameras success and F&H wanted to
offer an option to use 35 mm film for their Rolleiflex customers. It was
six years after the first Rolleikin introduction that F&H stressed the
color film use as a selling point for it; "The Rolleikin became one of the
most important accessories".
Carlos
El sáb., 17 oct. 2020 a las 15:06, `Richard Knoppow (<dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>)
escribió:
Don't forget that one reason for the 35mm adaptors was to
make color film available. 35mm color film became available in
the 1930s while roll format color was not available until after
1945.
On 10/16/2020 2:24 AM, CarlosMFreaza wrote:
Rollei TLR cameras have fixed focal length lenses except for
some hundreds of Mutars, Rolleinars and some dedicated Tele and
Wide cameras; the regular camera is used with the fixed focal
length lens most of the times, however the Rollei TLR 6x6
negative size and lens quality help a lot if a different and
longer focal length is required for the scene, the camera
manufacturers knew it and offered means to reduce the format
and the lens angle of view causing a short tele effec like the
masks for the T and Rolleicord and the Rolleikin with the
additional mechanism for 35mm; these features increase the
Rollei TLR system flexibility.
I like the square format and I try to compose for the square
format all the time using the Rollei TLR and SL66 cameras,
however there are situations where it's impossible to do it. I
had this situation last week-end photographing with the 3,5F
Planar and Ilford Delta 100, I needed a short tele and I used
the Rolleikin effect (I uploaded an image bigger than the usual
size for my web images):
https://flic.kr/p/2jVmP7H ;<https://flic.kr/p/2jVmP7H>
and this is a "regular" sht with the same camera and same film:
https://flic.kr/p/2jT7K9x ;<https://flic.kr/p/2jT7K9x>
Carlos
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