Hi Jerry:
I'll take this opportunity to correct an error in the
camera serial number while I'm at it:
The camera is serial #1101196, not 1100196. According
to what appears to be a detailed listing on
www.rolleirepairs.com, the 2.8A began with 1101000
(this is seconded by my 1957 Modern Photography
directory, which also mentions the change to MX synch
at 1201000) and ended with 1204999.
The lens is a T-coated 8cm 1:2,8 Tessar, #2311301.
The Lens Vade Mecum says that the batch of Rollei
f/2.8 Tessars were numbered between 2300000 and
3000000, so this falls at the beginning of the series,
both for the camera and the lens. This number is
extremely early: I have a prewar Super Ikonta A with
Tessar #2325112, and a ~1950 Contax S with Biotar
#3268188, and I had a prewar Automat with Tessar
#2493204 .... so the numbers on the 2.8A's certainly
seem to be out of sequence. Everything that I have
suggests that the numbers should have reached 2500000
before the war and 3000000 by the end of it.
rick :)=
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:17:58 -0500
From: "Jerry Laderberg" <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IDCC] Rolleiflex 2.8A -
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Rick, what is the serial number on the Tessar?
Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Oleson" <rick_oleson@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <idcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 11:28 AM
Subject: [IDCC] Rolleiflex 2.8A - a few questions on
restoration
>
> I have just acquired a Rolleiflex 2.8A, type 1,
with a
> T-coated Carl Zeiss Jena 8.0/2.8 Tessar lens and
1-400
> X-synch Compur Rapid shutter. It looks like it's
> going to clean up pretty well, at the moment it's
all
> in pieces on my bench but the shutter is running
well
> and the lens is clear.
>
> The camers is SN 1100196; the first 2.8A,
according to
> my sources, was #1100001, so this is #196 in the
block
> of numbers... but that same number block also
applied
> to the X-synch 3.5 Automat, which was made in much
> larger numbers, so this might be well under the
196th
> example of the first f/2.8 Rollei.
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