[rollei_list] Re: Rolleicord Vb $1,451

  • From: Kirk Thompson <thompsonkirk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Rollei List <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 09:56:03 -0700

Yes, Carlos, 

You're technically 100% correct – how could Rollei have called it the Old 
Standard if they hadn't designed a new one yet!?

Nevertheless, usage seems to have accepted the Old/New distinction.  Phillips 
says the 'common name' is Old Standard, so he uses that as his chapter heading. 
 And the Flickr folks who use the camera call themselves the 'Rolleiflex Old 
Standard' group:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/rolleioldstandard/

Another instance in which usage has trumped original meaning?  

Kirk

> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:45:03 -0300
> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Rolleicord Vb $1,451
> From: cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx
> To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Hi Kirk:
> 
> 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

>

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