[rollei_list] Re: [off-topic] The new Fuji will be sold ... and affordable ?
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 04:33:59 -0700
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From: "FRANK DERNIE" <frank.dernie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 3:05 AM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: [off-topic] The new Fuji will be
sold ... and affordable ?
This is absolutely true, a waste of the lenses! Most
Voigtlander cameras are mechanically excellent. The Bessa is
an exception and in no way does justice to the lens,
particularly when fairly well used.
I knew nothing about these cameras until investigating on
behalf of a friend of my wife's the value of a camera she
inherited when her father died. It was like new and was very
valuable as a collectors item but not a very good design as
a user camera, compared to a Super Ikonta, the only other
folding MF camera with which I am familiar.
Frank
The Super-Ikonta and its predecessor the Super-Ikomat
are interesting designs. Because the lens is front element
focusing the camera bed can be made quite rigid. The
rangefinder is also of an excellent design and relatively
proof against damage. The shortcoming, of course, is the
front element focusing. I suspect that a modern front
element focuser could be made where the corrections would be
optimised along with the change in focal length but this is
not the case in the older types. In fact, the lens is a sort
of rudementary zoom lens but where a zoom lens is designed
to say in focus for a given object and image distance the
FEF lens simply changes focal length. A curious byproduct of
this is that the field of view stays the same with distance
so that a simple frame finder will be accurate at all
distances (except for parallax). Zeiss evidently knew how to
get the best compromise for FEF lenses because the
Super-Ikonta has a very good reputation for sharpness but
this certainly is in part due to the rigid platform and
excellent rangefinder.
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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