[rollei_list] Re: Rolleiflex 35mm Cameras
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:52:03 -0500
At 05:06 PM 11/9/2009, Hauke Fath wrote:
>With a 400 mm lens (and the associated mirror box - "Spiegelkasten")? The
>point of a rangefinder camera is the rangefinder. Leave its useful range (>
>135 mm even for the Contax), and it's blind.
>
>I envy you. I dearly love my SL35E, but it required fixing in the late 80s
>because of the usual shutter/mirror issue,
The use of a reflex housing with a rangefinder
camera is a simple extension of the abilities of
the basic camera. SLR's are unusable at slow
speeds in low-light conditions, but RF cameras
can accommodate that and, with a reflex housing,
can do everything from macro work to long focus
work. Why complain about success? RF cameras
are far more capable, all in all, than are SLR's, Keppler to the contrary.
I do not know what you mean by "blind".
And I have owned four SL35 E cameras and all
worked perfectly. I have no clue as to what you
mean by "the usual shutter/mirror issue". It
would seem that F&H sold its better products in
the US, as we do not seem to have had the
problems with the Rolleiflex SL35's over here that you Europeans experienced.
Marc
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Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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