[rollei_list] Re: [off-topic] The new Fuji will be sold ... and affordabl...

  • From: "Austin Franklin" <austin.franklin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 13:54:54 -0400

Hi Lance,

I figured he must be referring to something other than the SI IV, as it's a
120 only camera in the first place.

Regards,

Austin
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  Austin,
  I believe Ed's referring to his Medalist 620.
  Health, Peace
  Lance
  Selma, NC 27576
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  In a message dated 10/5/2008 12:17:36 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
austin.franklin@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
    Hi Ed,

    Why did you have to have it converted to 120?

    Regards,

    Austin
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and affordable ?


      I also have an Ikonta IV.It  is a pleasure to use. I had the bald
mountail  guys convert it to 120.
      Then I had it "serviced". /////////////////////////////////Sharpness
was bad, until I discovered that Marty Forscher's /buddy diden't screw the
rear elements all the way in. I did it and it then  had a wonderfull
performer. Ed
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        >
        > ----- Original Message -----
        > From: "Robert Meier"
        > To:
        > Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 8:07 AM
        > Subject: [rollei_list] Re: [off-topic] The new Fuji will be
        > sold ... and affordable ?
        >
        >
        > > I've bought three Super Ikonta IV's in the last few years,
        > > because I had one as a teenager, my first serious camera,
        > > and had great results from it (still have the negatives I
        > > shot then). I have bought three in resent years because
        > > each one was not sharp. I finally sent one to to
        > > whats-his-name on Bald Mountain to be alligned, and it
        > > came back still not critically sharp. The standard I use
        > > is to make an 8x10 print and look at it with a 4x
        > > magnifier. Rollei shots are very crisp at that degree of
        > > enlargement. The Super Ikonta shots are all much less than
        > > crisp. I gave up on Super Ikontas.
        > >
        > Likely you are seeing the effect of the lens being a
        > front element focusing type. Unless a lens is made fairly
        > complex moving one element only will upset all the
        > corrections. Front element focusing lenses are designed to
        > have reasonable correction through their range but are never
        > quite right at any distance. On top of that f/2.8 is right
        > at the limit of speed for a Tessar type and generally such
        > lenses suffer in comparison to slower versions even when
        > stopped down. Tessars expected to have very high performance
        > are usually much slower as, for example, the Kodak
        > Commercial Ektar (f/6.3) and the Nikon LF lenses at about
        > f/8. The difficulty in getting acceptable performance near
        > wide open for an f/2.8 Tessar is probably why Rollei went to
        > another design for its f/2.8 cameras.
        >
        > --
        > Richard Knoppow
        > Los Angeles, CA, USA
        > dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx





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