[rollei_list] Re: Super Ikonta B question
- From: "Marvin Wallace" <Marvin0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 07:02:21 +0800
I would like to qualify that the Super Ikontas I am interested in is one of
the later models either III or IV.
The early versions I have found to be very heavy, and I am looking for
something that I can carry easily in my pocket.
Do you know of the quality of the 3.5/ 75 CZ Tessar on the later super
Ikontas?
I love 35mm but having the 6x6 negative in the darkroom does it for me.
Regards,
Marvin.
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Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Super Ikonta B question
At 02:43 PM 4/16/06 -0700, Jerry Lehrer wrote:
>Yoder,
>
>I have never found the wide open performance of my Super B
>objectionable in any way. Mine is a very late post war model
>with coated lens.
>
>Front element focusing was used on a number of Rolleiflexes.
>I never heard of any objection to the photos from those.
>
>One of the finest cameras that Kodak ever made had front
>element focusing.; the Super Six-20.
Jerry
His name is Stan, not Yoder, and he is a worthy scholar. He also quite
correct. I know a LOT of Super Ikonta B and BX shooters and all would
concede that the lens is a bit soft wide open. For that matter, Zeiss Ikon
did so as well and the final version, the Super Ikonta III and IV, reverted
to a 3.5/75 CZ Tessar. And front-cell focused lenses are always going to
be a bit more problematic that are front-standard focusing lenses.
Finally, I cannot recall a Rolleiflex medium-format camera which used
front-cell focusing though I may be overlooking one. Certainly, the Rollei
35's used front-cell focusing but I believe that these were one of the very
few Rolleiflex cameras to use such a system. And the problems with
front-cell focusing are not as pronounced on miniature (35mm) film than on
medium-format emulsions.
For sheer portability and ease of use, I will always pick up my Werra 3 for
35mm work and either one of my Rolleiflex TLR's or one of my Super Ikonta
B's for MF work. When the going gets serious and portability is less of an
issue, than I will use a Retina IIIc, Leica TM or M, a Contax RF, or my
Rolleiflex SL35E (depending which lenses will be required -- I can go from
a 12mm Leitz Photar for macro work to a 2600mm tele with my Questar and a
Barlow -- or one of my Hasselblads, probably my SWC or my 2000 FCM.
Both of my Super Ikonta B's are Prewar ones without coated lenses and both
are great for everything from b&w to chromes. Damn, but I miss Kodachrome
in 120!
Marc
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