On Wednesday, March 14, 2007, at 05:53AM, "CarlosMFreaza" <
cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>That is the Rolleimot. There are the Rolleimot 1, 2, and 3; the Rolleimot
>purposes are the camera shutter release and to advance the film to the
next
>frame cocking the shutter for a new release. You can shoot up to 200
metres
>(according WD Emanuel, Prochnow 10 m) from the camera via special cable
and
>up to 3m with the standard cable; the interval between shots are about
>3.5seconds, they use four batteries U2.
>The Rolleimot 1 was dedicated to Rolleiflex 2.8 and 3.5 cameras and Tele,
>Wide and Rolleimagic; the Rollimot 2 for the same cameras more these
cameras
>provided with the special 150 frames Magazine manufactured by
>Flashpot France; the Rolleimot 3 was for the Rollei SL 66, they
>were manufactured from 1963 to 1969.
>You can see here a Rolleimot:
>http://www.collectcamera.com/pagesrollei/misc/rolleimotc.htm
>
>All the best
>Carlos
O.K. now it makes sense.
If there's a bulk film back, then I can see someone marching subjects past
it and taking a shot of each one as they go by. For some reason this didn't
seem reasonable if you had to stop every twelve shots, take the camera off
the stand and reload.
Thanks for the info,
All the best
Larry Cuffe
>
>
>2007/3/13, Laurence Cuffe <cuffe@xxxxxxx>:
>>
>>
>> Mr Bigler's Coments on the meaning of "Cranky" amused me. They also
>> brought to mind a poster of Rollei models which I saw on the wall in
Nippon
>> Photo Clinic on broadway, when I was bringing in my F3 for service
>> yesterday. What intrigued me was some models of the tlr beginning
around
>> the nineteen sixties. These appeared to have a large rectangular base,
and a
>> cylindrical protrusion on the side where the crank would be on the
>> camera. I assume that these were motor driven models, but I wonder
what was
>> their original use. They seemed as though they were designed to be
shot
>> from a fixed location as the whole arrangement seemed far to unwieldy
to
>> hand hold.
>>
>> All the best
>> Larry Cuffe
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