[rollei_list] Re: Rollieflex Camera Dating II
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 16:16:39 -0400
At 03:51 PM 10/6/2007, Richard Knoppow wrote:
> Lens serial number data for Zeiss lenses up to the
>division of the company after WW-2 are available but serial
>number data for later lenses is more difficult to find.
There are two extensive and reliable listings of
Postwar Zeiss lenses running up to the
present. The most accessible is the Thiel
compilations from factory records. Volume I
covers Carl Zeiss Jena lenses from the beginnings
to roughly 1922, Volume II runs CZJ from 1922 or
so to the recovery of the company by the Zeiss
Foundation in 1991, while Volume III covers all
Zeiss-Opton and Opton and Carl Zeiss lenses
manufactured at Oberkochen from its beginnings in
1948 to the present. Somewhat less easy to
access but even more reliable is the Zeiss Lens
List maintained by Charlie Barringer. This is
less accessible as it is managed by a single
individual and is more reliable as it is based on
the actual numbers taken from lenses either in
person by folks such as me and thee or from
illustrations in books and literature such as
camera catalogues and magazine articles -- one
number was even scrounged from the opening
credits of that rather unlikeable war movie of a
few years back, U-571 (it is imaging the detail
which can be brought out by freezing the frame on
a DVD -- the lens in question was from a panning
movie camera in the opening credits).
You will note that I am always asking for Zeiss
and Zeiss-related numbers. I forward these to
Charlie. You will also note that I generally try
to field routine queries on lens numbers either
from Thiele or Prochnow or from my own records,
to spare Charlie. On occasion, when I have been
unable to answer a query here or on the IDCC or
Hasselblad List, I have asked Charlie for
assistance and he has always been most forthcoming.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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