[rollei_list] Re: Rolleiflex clones
- From: Mark Rabiner <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:50:02 -0400
> I wrote some days ago that the Japanese industry could not produce a
> 6x6 TLR so well balanced like the Rollei TLR cameras IMO. The only 6x6
> TLR camera that could rival the Rollei TLR was the Mamiya TLR, this
> camera has interchangeable lenses, built-in bellows and a lot of
> accesories, however the Mamiya TLR is a studio camera mainly and/or to
> be used with tripod and after some years of use they tend to have
> light leaks due to bellows damage, BTW they are not so compact like
> the Rollei TLR.
> Another issue is the pieces quality and internal mechanisms assembly
> right adjustment and working, Rollei TLR don't have rivals for this
> issue. F&H were lucky from the point of view that Nikon decided their
> TLR prototype no manufacture due to the 35mm cameras and lenses
> success :-)
> BTW, one of the mechanical cameras pinnacles were the Rolleiflex F
> models, there was no a TLR model like this.
>
> Carlos
My assistant in the late 80's R. took his all over Paris and got home and
printed them up big he shot color neg and was a custom printer. Gorgeous
stuff. Captured the pink Parisian light. Not a small camrea. But people
carry them down the street all the time. Dianne Arbus did.
Mark William Rabiner
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