Very interesting link Carlos, Thank you. Judging from the pictures the
prototype looks pretty compact, with a detachable front panel on a model E
body. Very similar to the actual Tele and Wide Rolleiflex cameras. Perhaps
Rollei did not find an elegant solution, up to their high standards, for
the challenges posed by interchangeable lenses: distance and depth of field
scales, parallax error and angle of view of the eye level frame hood.
Mamiya C solutions of this problems work, but are rather crude and not
completely satisfactory.
Javier
El sáb., 8 feb. 2020 a las 10:51, CarlosMFreaza (<cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>)
escribió:
El vie., 7 feb. 2020 a las 7:01, Javier Herraiz Veliz (<
javierherraizveliz@xxxxxxxxx>) escribió:
According John Phillips’ The Classic Rollei, around 1957, one year afterThe prototype was ready for production, but F&H management
the releasing of the Mamiya C, the Rollei research department worked in a
prototype of a 2.8E with interchangeable lenses. The project was dropped,
supposedly for technical and economic reasons. I have often wondered what
had happened if Rollei had followed that way, as Mamiya did. The Mamiya
330 is an excellent, versatile camera, but heavy, clumsy and in no way as
appealing as a Rolleiflex.
Javier:
(in other words, Reinhold Heidecke) decided to stop the project, they opted
for the Tele and Wide Angle Tolleiflex. Rollei had the money to manufacture
the camera, but there were doubts about its commercial success within the
Rolleiflex TLR cameras consumer and the model was out of basic Rollei TLR
principles like compactness. Some people within F&H regretted the decision
about the prototype.
This web page is in Italian, but it has photographs about the Rolleiflex
TLR with interchangeable lenses;
*https://tinyurl.com/vc7lkor ;<https://tinyurl.com/vc7lkor>*
*Carlos *
