[rollei_list] Re: Rolleiflex SL 35 E
- From: Cmfreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 16:36:35 -0300
That info about the reasons the Sl 350 was not made in Singapore is not right.
It was designed to be made in Singapore from the beginning, after the first
batch made in Braunschweig to test the machinery before the transfer to
Singapore. Rollei had bought Voigtlaender and several workers, technicians and
engineers like Sarowski needed projects to work. Rollei management decided the
Bowden cable used to transmit f stop and shutter speeds for the open aperture
metering was not a good technical solution despite several Japanese
manufacturers used it. This was the pretext to abort the Sl 350 project, an
excellent camera from Rollei design originated in the sl35, to adapt old models
from Zeiss Ikon/Voigtlaender that were a commercial failure. The situation
caused serious problems between Rollei technical teams and the team coming from
Voigtlaender.
Carlos
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De: "Hauke Fath" <hauke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Enviado el: 03/03/2014 12:24 p.m.
Para: "rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Asunto: [rollei_list] Re: Rolleiflex SL 35 E
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 09:12:51 -0600, Raid Amin wrote:
> The SL350 may have been the best overall 135mm Rolleiflex SLR camera made
> then.
Well, it still had the integral light metering, powered by a 1.35 V
mercury cell that is hard to come by, and it had the all-mechanical
horizontal cloth shutter with a sync time of 1/60th (as opposed to the
SL35E's 1/125th). And its complex design couldn't be built reliably in
Singapore, which is why F&H went with the simpler Voigtländer SLR
(SL35M/ME).
I am sure the SL350 is a great camera - if you can get one, they are
rare. But feature-wise it is not a match for the SL35E (which I am very
fond of, despite its flakiness).
hauke
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