[rollei_list] Re: Rolleimot
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:51:04 -0400
At 10:42 PM 4/8/2010, Peter K. wrote:
My problem is you would have to have electricity
in those dangerous areas. Something that is hardly doable.
Very much to the contrary. The Linde artificial
sapphire plant has electricity all over the place
but most of it is not open to humans when in
operation due to heat and toxic fumes. At the
very time F&H was developing the Rolleimot,
Questar began marketing their 3.5 telescope as a
"distant microscope" for such applications and
pretty much took over the field in short
order. (My Questar is a Quartz model purchased
for such an application by the old US Army
Frankfort Arsenal in Philadelphia in 1962. My
late friend, Charlie Barringer, purchased it in
1990 when Frankfort was closed and sold it to me
in 1994. It is a most wonderful instrument.)
There are many industrial and scientific
facilities which do not lend themselves to human
observers. The Rolleimot made sense. It just
was not the most elegant solution available at
the time. Incidentally, Dan Goldberg in New York
worked with Leitz to produce a very similar
remote control power-winder for the M4 which was
rather successful in the US for a few years. And
Robot in Germany made remote-control
spring-loaded cameras for surveillance uses, some
of which were used for industrial observations in dangerous areas.
Anyway, that's my story, and I'm sticking to it! <he grins>
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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