[rollei_list] Re: Rolleiflex 35mm Cameras
- From: "Peter K." <peterk727@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:28:34 -0800
I never found it useless. Mine works quite well. If I set focus for 5 feet
it was accurate.
By the time you did all that with the RF and Rollei you lost the moment of
the shot.
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The XA rangefinder is pretty much useless. It is much more precise to
> use a decent hotshoe RF that's calibrated to a Rollei 35...
>
>
> Eric Goldstein
>
> --
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:35 PM, CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Peter
> > Rollei 35: 97W x 60H x 32
> > Olympus XA: 102x64.5x40
> >
> > The Olympus XA is a 1978/79 design, the smaller Rollei 35 is an
> > earlier '60s product.
> > The real reason Dr Ludwig Leitz rejected the Waaske prototype was that
> > they did not want an in-home competence for their established cameras.
> > Rollei 35 has a shutter speeds/f stops Cds coupled lightmeter, a
> > central metal leaf shutter with flash sync for any shutter speed, the
> > lens barrel can be fully retracted, it is not a so simple camera, you
> > feel it very solid and nicely heavy for its size.
> > My 1973 Rollei 35 Tessar Singapore looks excellent after 36 years, the
> > coupled lightmeter has a surprising precision, you can see in the
> > camera it was built with excellent materials.
> >
> > Rollei developed production 35 prototypes with range finder, the main
> > problem was always the camera compactness, there was no room for a
> > reliable rangefinder easy and cheap to build. The RF prototypes that
> > worked fine had other problems. One of them needed a ring with a loupe
> > on the lens barrel and it was awkful, the other was a very complex RF
> > difficult and expensive too much to manufacture and then the Rollei 35
> > did not have its RF system
> > The Rollei 35 SA and TA were advanced models with electronic shutter
> > and electronic lightmeter and with a modern design thought for
> > production in 1980/81, but the bankruptcy avoided the manufacture,
> > anyway the Rollei 35 was one of the most successful cameras in the
> > photographic cameras history.
> >
> > Carlos
> >
> >
> >
> > 2009/11/11, Peter K. <peterk727@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >> THANKS! At least I know my memory is still intact. That is how I
> remember
> >> it.
> >> Ashame they could not incorporate a RF into the body. I own an Olympus
> XA
> >> with a 35mm F2.8 and it is smaller AND has a RF. Is there a reason
> Maitani
> >> (the designer) was able to do this and Wasske was not? I mean, is the
> Sonnar
> >> lens the reason? Too large?
> >>
> >> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Yes, but it was really designed by Heinz Waaske when he was at
> >> Voigtlander but
> >> > > they would not entertain building it. So he went to Rollei with the
> >> idea. I
> >> > > think it would have been more successful if he had put a RF in it.
> Just
> >> my
> >> > > opinion.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Leitz said no to it too I thought I recall reading.
> >> >
> >> > "too simple"
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Mark William Rabiner
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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