Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]the lens is a homemade planar by rollei with their special multicoating that never makes up for legendary zeiss quality in your mind. the original automat dies that automatically took you to #1 were melted down so they had to use the rolleicord mechanism w/start marks. if you never had a real rollei aautomat from say 1939 to 60 or so you just might like it.ralph > From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> > Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 16:02:54 -0400 > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Subject: RE: [Leica] Would Ansel Adams shoot Leica > >> << The waist level finder (like the >> Rolleiflex) makes for an instrument which you always are resting >> up against >> something. Setting it on a book on a table to squeeze off shots. >> >> > Have any of you used the latest incarnation of the Rollei TLR, the > "Expression," with built in TTL metering? If so, how good is the metering, > and how well built, compared to the older Rolleis, is the camera? > > B. D. >> >