[rollei_list] Re: Rolleiflex T
- From: Robert Meier <robertmeier@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:07:41 -0600 (CST)
I have a pair of T's, and have chosen them over the 3.5F and 2.8F that I sold.
There are several things about the T that makes it the best Rollei, in my
humble opinion:
1 it's at least 6 ounces lighter, and that is a very noticeable difference
2 it takes Bay I accessories, which are smaller and lighter, but more
importantly, allows me to use the superb Minolta Autopole
3 it has the side-pointing shutter release, which I find much easier and
steadier to use (this alone was enough to convert me to the T)
I keep infrared film in one of my T's and T-Max 400 in the other. I could use
a third for Ektar 100 and even a fourth, which I would use for Delta 3200.
What a perfect outfit.
Robert
On Nov 20, 2011, at 2:32 PM, Sanders McNew wrote:
> Emmanuel, I have one of the last Ts, with the Xenar lens. Imagine that. :-)
>
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>> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:26:47 +0100
>> From: Emmanuel Bigler <Emmanuel.Bigler@xxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Rolleiflex T
>>
>> [snip]
>> But the following story is probably more convincing. Although it was
>> intended as an amateur-grade camera, the reliability of the Rolleiflex
>> T gives us, in the XXI-st century, an idea on how German engineers of
>> the fifties in the last century designed and built what should have
>> been a low-cost, amateur camera. Several hundreds(?) of Rolleiflex T
>> were ordered and used by the British Navy; the camera performed so
>> well according to this very special client, that the honourable
>> British institution re-ordered some other Rolleiflex T at the very end
>> of its commercial life. There were no longer enough Zeiss Tessars
>> lenses in stock to serve the client, hence the legend says that Franke
>> & Heidecke at the last minute had to ask Schneider-Kreuznach to supply
>> 3.5-75 mm xenars, in use at the same time on the Rolleicord. Hence
>> Xenar-fitted Rolleiflex T do exist in the very last batch but are
>> quite rare.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Emmanuel, a Rolleiflex T aficionado since 1977.
>>
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