[rollei_list] Re: Serial No's
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:36:43 -0700
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From: "Peter J Nebergall" <iusar4s@xxxxxxxx>
To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 3:06 PM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Serial No's
Someone just tried to sell me an "Automat ,1937" -- are
they wrong? Did
the NS co-occur with the Automat?
Peter
The time line is: First Rolliflex (knob wind); December,
1928
First crank wind Rolleiflex (later called the Old Standard);
January, 1932, last, May, 1938
First Rolleiflex Automat (crank wind, automatic threading,
coupled shutter cocking); August, 1937
First "New Standard" (crank wind and coupled shutter but not
automatic threading); May, 1939.
The New Standard has levers to adjust the shutter speed
and aperture as did the "Old Standard" rathter than the two
knobs of the Automat.
The Standard model appears (from Prochnow) to have been
discontinued in 1941, probably at the outbreak of the war
and never made again. Improved models of the Rolleicord
appear to have been aimed at the same market.
So, the New Standard and the Automat co-existed from
1939 to 1941. Over this period Rollei had three models in
three price ranges.
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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