[rollei_list] Re: Rolleiflex TLR Viewing Lens Provenance
- From: Carlos Manuel Freaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 16:27:15 +0000 (GMT)
Mike, congratulations for your restoration work, it
looks professional and the PC socket too. Prochnow
shows a Rolleicord with the very rare Xenar 4.5/75 and
an adapted PC socket placed beside the taking lens
lower part.
According your camera serial number it's an Automat
III model for Prochnow and an Automat II for Parker.
For Prochnow it would be an Automat III because it has
the Bayonet 1 for both lenses and no engraved name in
the viewfinder lens ring. According Prochnow there no
Automats with "gray" wheels, they are clear for the
Automat I and II and black for the Automat III and
then it's difficult to say if your camera wheels are
discolored black wheels or darkened clear wheels...
anyway it's always possible your camera suffered some
parts change along the years.
As I wrote previously, your camera Carl Zeiss Jena
serial number is for a lens manufactured on 1941
according the data and date that Prochnow obtained
from Carl Zeiss archives, if the lens is original it
onlu could be for an Automat III.-
All the best
Carlos
--- Mike Kovacs <mskovacs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:
> Carlos, I restored this camera to shooting condition
> myself. I don't
> own Prochnow, though I probably should!
>
> The Compur Rapid shutter had what looked like a
> factory parts PC synch
> conversion (nicely done) but the synch terminal was
> some sort of
> non-standard connection located in that position you
> see. When I
> restored the camera, I replaced that terminal with a
> locking PC socket
> taken from a junker Kiev 4 camera. So from a
> collectors standpoint its
> been modified, but its a wonderful shooter for the
> days I'm in the mood
> for an uncoated Tessar look.
>
> You can't see the cable release socket but this
> camera has the button
> style release with the cable release socket on the
> opposide side, behind
> where the lens hood is blocking.
>
>
http://www3.sympatico.ca/mskovacs/pv/Rolleiflex/PrewarAutomat1.jpg
>
>
>
> Carlos Manuel Freaza wrote:
>
> >Mike, my source is Claus Prochnow, Rollei Report 1,
> >anyway I'm seeing that your camera seems to have a
> PC
> >socket beside the viewing lens and then your camera
> is
> >a modified Automat, it's not original, the PC
> socket
> >was one of the upgrades for the Automat, the
> Bayonet
> >for the viewing lens is also an upgrade, ¿what is
> your
> >camera serial number? ¿Could you show a photograph
> >where we can see the camera shutter release button
> and
> >the cable release socket?.
> >The first Rolleiflex camera with PC socket original
> >from factory was the Rolleiflex 3.5 X from 1949.-
> >
> >All the best
> >Carlos
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