[rollei_list] Re: Rolleiflex 35mm Cameras
- From: CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:43:10 -0300
John:
Rollei 35 SE and TE were the first regular production Rollei
35 cameras with the lens release button on the front side, this design
was used for the Rollei 35 cameras during the Rollei Fototechnik era.
The lens release on the camera front was the original Heinz Waaske
design (it was a little lever close to the lens) but it was modified
by Rollei putting the lens release beside the shutter release button.
This modification was one of the few Rollei 35 users initial claims
regarding the design, it was/is easy to confuse both buttons. The
TE/SE solved this issue returning to the Waaske design on the matter.
The initial idea for the TE/SE was to install the lightmeter needle in
the viewfinder, but there was no room to do it and then the electronic
lightmeter with LED was developed by Rollei Singapore. The original
design about the lightmeter on the camera top had to do with space but
also with the fact you need to see the camera from above to set the
focusing distance, the advantage about to read the LED lightmeter in
the viewfinder was not so significant then; you can measure the light
at the same angle regarding the image, however you do distance and
some speed/f-stops settings at waist-level or close to waist-level,
anyway it was a design tendence at the time.
BTW, it's always better to take the lightmeter readings at the more
close angle regarding the photograph angle with the 35 needle
lightmeter, anyway I never perceived this caused me a real problem.
Rollei TE/SE lightmeters have some features to diminish battery power
use, they become off after 10 seconds and the shutter release has two
points, the first one for the meter and the second one to release the
shutter, anyway, as you wrote, LEDs were battery guzzler, it really
looks like one of the causes to come back to needle lightmeter,
another reason was to give the "Rollei 35 Classic" a true traditional
shape.
Carlos
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