[rollei_list] Re: Rolleiflex 2.8GX Japan Edition
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 22:30:40 -0500
At 10:12 PM 3/9/2012, Kirk Thompson wrote:
I'd be ashamed to walk around with a camera as tastelessly gaudy as that.
I suppose was made to garner cash from
collectors who want to have 'one of each.'
Kirk
Trust me, such do exist, but not in large
numbers. Few collectors have a lot of interest
in commemorative models of any sort, so these
often do not make their sales goals. Leica and
Rolleiflex both fall victim to the mindset that
'if we make it, they will buy', while, in most
cases, few collectors are interested in such
exotica. Zeiss Ikon learned that sad truth as
early as 1952 with their 'Jubilum' Contax IIa --
they were so embarrassed that we no longer know
what the jubilee was. (I own one of these but
paid no premium for it, as Bob Pins missed the marking.)
Now, a lot more common are the collectors who
have to have every production variation of a
given model. There are seven models of the
Contax I and two versions of the Cyclops
Contarex. I must not be a collector, as I only
have one of each, and take pictures with them! A
true collector can spot minutia such as a change
in the knurling of a ring under the shutter
release or the abbreviations used on the
engraving -- this is sort of thing which keeps
Leica IIIc collectors up at night with glee and
joy. The 2.8GX is another one with a number of
variations in its production as parts such as the
Compur shutter became unavailable and had to be replaced with substitutes.
Marc
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Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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