[rollei_list] Re: Rolleiflex 35mm Cameras
- From: Hauke Fath <hauke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:52:02 +0100
At 17:52 Uhr -0500 9.11.2009, Marc James Small wrote:
>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.
>
>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".
Due to the limited base length of the rangefinder, it only works up to a
limited focal length. You'd miss TTL light metering with a reflex housing,
too, unless you have a good spot meter, I'd think.
> >I envy you. I dearly love my SL35E, but it required fixing in the late 80s
> >because of the usual shutter/mirror issue,
>
>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".
What I have seen with my SL35E (and a VSL3 that I bought from F&H bankrupcy
surplus in the mid-eighties) is (a) the shutter falling back after ~80% of
winding up, and (b) the mirror gears getting out of sync with winding the
shutter, and ending in the 'up' position when the shutter is cocked.
Apparently, there are electronics problems, too, which is fatal because the
ICs are not available any more.
>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.
Is Jan Böttcher still on the list? I guess he'd have something to say here...
Maybe indeed the US importer had additional quality control? It's not
unheard of - apparently the British Kiev importer saved the brand's
reputation in the seventies by reviewing the imported cameras, and in the
eighties the German importer of Jaguar cars had them routinely repainted.
hauke
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"It's never straight up and down" (DEVO)
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