[rollei_list] Re: Rolleiflex T with Planar?
- From: Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 07:40:52 -0400
The T featured a recalculated Tessar... probably the best corrected tessar
type (the Xenar is a tessar-type) medium format lens available at the time.
I'd be interested in seeing some back-up around the assertion that the T
Tessar was soft.
Eric Goldstein
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 7:33 AM, John Wild <JWild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Rolleiflex ‘T’s were fitted with Xenar lenses from midway in 1971
> production year, exact SN not accurately known but somewhere between
> 2315000 – 2315999, from then on, till end of production with 2319999 (if
> that is accurate end number) they were all fitted with Xenars. Rollei had
> run out of Tessar lenses and so used the Xenar from the Rolleicord, which
> was reported to be a better lens, the Tessar being ‘soft’.
>
> According to the records, SN 2170110 was made between 10/07/1962 and
> 28/10/1963 and was fitted with a Tessar. I have not seen any reference to
> one fitted with a Planar. Providing it would actually fit, it is possible
> that this camera had a Planar fitted by a third party...
>
> The photo appears to have “Carl Zeiss” written on it, although the photo
> is not clear, so the lens can only be a Tessar or Planar.
>
> Ian Parker wrote an article in Issue 13 of Club Rollei User on Rolleiflex
> ‘T’ production, see: http://rollei.org.uk/club-rollei-user-issue-13/
>
> John
>
>
> On 11/07/2013 12:01, "Jan Decher" <jdecher@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This auction offers a Rolleiflex T with a Planar:
>
>
> http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=281129298664&ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:DE:1123
>
> The seller insists that it is a T with a Planar instead of Tessar.
>
> Anyone heard of this exception ?
> Jan
>
>
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