[rollei_list] Re: a little unparallel of lens panel

  • From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 13:38:15 -0700


----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffery Smith" <jls@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 1:22 PM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: a little unparallel of lens panel


My fear is that your Rollei may have taken a hit in the past. When I pored
over one of my books on buying vintage cameras, the biggest issue with
Rolleiflexes seemed to be that you must ensure that the camera's lens and
film planes are absolutely parallel, and that buying a camera that has taken
a hit is risky. Just yesterday, I saw a Rolleiflex GX on e**y that is being
auctioned by B&H Photo. The price is very low because B&H states that their
technician cannot get it to focus at any distance. I assumed this to be the
same sort of problem, i.e., non-parallel lens/film.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com
http://400tx.blogspot.com/

On 21-Jul-06, at 6:59 PM, steven woody wrote:

I don't think this is from a blow or from dropping the camera. The focus mechanism is very strong, a blow sufficient to bend something would pretty certainly cause other damage. If I have interpreted Woody's complaint properly its something I've seen, caused by a problem with the cam followers in the focus mechanism. It should be easy to fix, the difficulty being to get at the cams and followers.

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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

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