[rollei_list] Re: unsuscribe and the Kalart Focuspot for Rollei
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 20:20:42 -0700
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Subject: [rollei_list] Re: unsuscribe and the Kalart
Focuspot for Rollei
DAW,
Perhaps you harken back on the Kalart Focuspot? An
example for Rollei
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Very interesting item.
Late Pacemaker Graflex cameras came with something
similar and some form
could be added to older side mounted rangefinder models
getting power from the
batteries in the flash handle.
I have a Rolleimeter on a 2.8C and fast focusing is a
breeze. Incredibly
useful accessory which should have been carried on to the
removable finder
model Rolleis.
Health, Peace
Lance
Selma, NC 27576
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In a message dated 6/9/2008 9:26:50 P.M. Eastern Daylight
Time,
dwilli10@xxxxxxx writes:
As for me, referring back to the recent posts on the
Rolleimeter, and this
is probably ploughing old ground, who made that night
focusing device for the
Rollei's in the 1950's. The one the photographer used to
take to school
dances and aimed and focused with a pair of light beams
that converged on the
subject?
In incredibly clever idea.
DAW
Kalart made a rangefinder to fit Rolleis and some other
TLRs. It mounted on the bottom of the camera using the
tripod mount socket and was coupled by an arm resting on the
lensboard. This device had a Focuspot lamp built-in with
room for the battery in the case.
The Focusspot could be used on Kalart models from about
the mid-1940s, I would have to look at the old advertising
to see when it was first made. Rangefinders designed for it
had a removable flap on the top and the Focuspot was
attached with a bayonette arrangement on the lamp end. I
have one on a Speed Graphic. It works just fine. For press
work one could get the spots on whatever it was you wanted
to photgraph, make them coincident with the focus knob and
shoot. The usual lens on the Graphic was sort of wide angle
so the subject would be in the frame.
There is a ring next to the eyepiece that acts as a
switch for the lamp.
Later Graphics, with top rangefinders, have a focusing
light built in. I have no idea who actually built these.
Hugo Meyer offered a similar arrangement for its
rangefinders. I've never seen a Graphic with a Meyer RF on
it, perhaps because they could not be adapted to different
focal length lenses.
The Kalart is surprizingly accurate but must be set up
right. This can be tedious. Some time ago I wrote a
prodedure for adjusting them which is posted on the
Graflex.org site. I have to re-write it because I think its
not too clear about some things.
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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