[rollei_list] Re: "There is a 220 Rollei T"
- From: "Peter K." <peterk727@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:06:26 -0700
Dude. I do not think you can do 24 exp on a 120 roll unless they are
6x3cm format. A real oddity.
On 4/22/05, Ardeshir Mehta <ardeshir@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Friday, April 22, 2005, at 09:34 PM, David Seifert wrote:
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> > 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
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> 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.
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> Thanks again for taking the trouble.
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> Cheers,
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> A.
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Peter K
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