ROLLEIFLEX SL66 PHOTOGRAPHER

The subject took a photograph with the cell phone whilst he focused her...

MY REPAIRED ROLLEIFLEX SL66

My Rolleiflex SL66 received a repair work in Brunswick (Braunschweig), the city where it was made in Germany. The original work was to do a general CLA and to renew the shutter and film advance mechanism, however  the camera suffered a terrific blow during the returning travel to home and I needed to send it to Germany again. This second time the camera required a new lateral panel for the magazin, new spare parts for the focusing mechanism and  a new adjustment work for other parts.The photograph only shows some of the biggest replaced parts. The camera is working very well and smooth now (click on thumbnail) 

FILM SHEET 6,5 x 9 cm ROLLEI PLATE ADAPTER

The Rollei Plate Adapter is a very interesting accesory for the Rollei TLR cameras; they use 6,5x9 cm glass plates or film sheets, but the image size is always 6x6. The 6,5x9cm format was popular in the past, but it's difficult to find these plates or sheets size today. Ilford manufacture the film sheets according special orders each year; I bought two boxes with 25 sheets .

VOIGTLÄNDER bERGHEIL

The Voigtländer Bergheil was made in Braunschweig, Germany, from 1911 up to about 1941. It was considered a pro-camera or for the advanced amateur. It uses 6,5x9 glass plates or film sheets, it can also use 120 roll film via an adapter. This sample is provided with an uncoated Heliar 4,5/105mm a five elements high quality lens. The bellows can be moved up-down and from side to side for perspective control. The camera is light and very easy to carry. (click on thumbnail).

Rolleiflex telephone

The San Telmo neighborhood in Buenos Aires city, Argentina, has several antique shops, some of them dedicated to photographic items. Last November 2011 I visited the shop below with my son (he took the images with his digi cam) and we discovered this "Rollei telephone", it worked!!

The Rollei telephone (click thumbnail)

    

Note the old wood stereo viewer (click thumbnail)



Rolleiflex 3.5F in the Lanin

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I carried the Rolleiflex 3.5F Planar (third version model) in my backpack during our Lanin volcano climbing in November 2011, my son Nicolás surprised me with this image taken close to the shelter on 2600m as the pennant indicates, the Tromen lake is in the background (right) and the little white triangle in the last background on the left is the active Llaima volcano, there is a bit of volcanic ash in the atmosphere coming from the Puyehue volcano. The square images in this Flickr set were taken with the 3.5F, some of them from the same area:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/itarfoto/sets/72157628240049097/

Rolleiflex SL35M

(Image better seen at the largest size). The Rolleiflex SL 35M has some relationship with one of the lasts Zeiss Ikon cameras, the SL 706. The 35M and the identical Voigtländer VSL 1 BM have the QBM bayonet. The camera has self-timer, TTL Cds coupled lightmeter, DOF preview, double diagonal split image in the vewfinder, hot shoe and PC terminal for flash, shutter cable release, mechanical shutter with focal plane fabric curtain (B,1/2sec to 1/1000sec), it was made by Rollei Singapore from 1976 to 1979 and sold in the black version only.

The standard lens is a Planar 1.8/50 designed by Carl Zeiss based on the previous Carl Zeiss Ultron 1.8/50 for Zeiss Ikon and Voigtländer cameras, including the Zeiss Ikon SL 706. The Carl Zeiss Ultron was an evolution regarding the 1950 Voigtländer Ultron 2/50. The Planar was labeled Color Ultron for the Voigtländer cameras made by Rollei.-
Note: My blog about the Rolleiflex SL 35 System: http://rolleiflexsl35system.blogspot.com/2011/06/rolleiflex-sl-35-system.html