[rollei_list] Re: Rolleiflex 35mm Cameras
- From: "Marvin" <marvin0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:47:35 +0800
But better that using a hot shoe rf, a good quality built in rf such as the
contax II is far superior, and less cumbersome.
Marvin.
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Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Rolleiflex 35mm Cameras
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
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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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