[rollei_list] Re: Rolleicord Vb $1,451

  • From: CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:45:03 -0300

Hi Kirk:
           As your previous message said the Standard Tessar 3.5/75
with Compur shutter was rare, I thought it suggested there were
Standards with no Compur shutters, OK, you clarified now you wrote
Compur as opposed to Compur-Rapid. Yes, Standards K2B622 with Tessar
3.5/75 and 1/300s shutter timed by escapament are rare in comparison
with the Compur-Rapid version, anyway it was the shutter for the
Original Rolleiflex K1B611,612,613 and 614 and Standards K2B620 and
621.

I don't like to use the term "Old Standard", the camera name is
"Rolleiflex Standard", someone, (not Rollei) added the word "old" when
the Standard New appeared in 1939, but the Standard New was a cheaper
Rolleicord-Rolleiflex intermediate model with very limited production
due to the war, the Standard was a more significant model to be "old"
regarding the Standard New IMO, and then you have "Rolleiflex
Standard" and "Rolleiflex Standard New".

Carlos

2011/8/20 Kirk Thompson <thompsonkirk@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi Carlos,
>
> Yes, I saw your post about about the Vb/Elmar after I'd written mine.
>
> On the point in question, the number of 622's assembled with Compurs – prior
> to the Compur-Rapids – was apparently very low.  Phillips says in 'The
> Classic Rollei' (my italics):
>
> "Model 620 with f4.5 lens is uncommon, while model 622 with the Compur (as
> opposed to Compur-Rapid) shutter is positively rare."  (p. 40)
>
> "The f3.8 version carried on alone until shortly after the release of the
> model with f3.5 Tessar.  The replacement was not, however, the 3.5 version
> with 1/500 Compur-Rapid shutter.  For a few months the f3.5 lens, like its
> predecessors, was mounted in the old 1/300 Compur.  Rolleiflex [Old]
> Standards with this combination are rare, suggesting the f3.5 Compur-Rapid
> equipped cameras arrived quite early in 1935."  (p. 42)
>
>> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:24:26 -0300
>> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Rolleicord Vb $1,451
>> From: cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx
>> To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Kirk:
>> I think you did not read my previous message, I found the
>> Rolleicord Vb in the seller web site.
>> The Rolleiflex Standard with Tessar 3.5/75 lens was manufactured from
>> November 1934 to May 1938, they always were provided with a Compur
>> shutter, from 1934 to 1935 with the older Compur 1/300s fastest
>> shutter speed and from 1935 with the newer Compur-Rapid shutter 1/500s
>> fastest shutter speed (Claus Prochnow, Rollei Report 1).
>>
>> Carlos
>
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