[rollei_list] Re: "There is a 220 Rollei T"
- From: Ardeshir Mehta <ardeshir@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:58:35 -0400
On Friday, April 22, 2005, at 09:34 PM, David Seifert wrote:
> Ardeshir,
>
> Just for you, I look this up again. According to Prochnow in Rollei
> Report 2 page 409 there were 250 units of this type built in June
> 1961. He notes that these were "Direktverkauf, nicht gelistet", direct
> sale, no price listed. I interpret that to mean that these were a
> custom order batch. The customer is not mentioned. They used 120 film
> and produced either 12 6x6 images per roll or 24 24x36 images per roll
> using the special mask kit. Thus, they had a 12/24 frame counter.
>
> For the record, the standard model of that run (56,000 units) came
> with a 12/16 frame counter equipped to do 12 or 16 exposures per 120
> roll. The mask kit produced 16 4.5x5 images.
>
> Thus spake Prochnow!
>
> David
Thank you, David. Kind of you. The custom order explains it. I had no
idea that they could do 24 exposures on a 120 roll. The 16-exposure
mask, however, I knew about.
Thanks again for taking the trouble.
Cheers,
A.
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