Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/17

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Rollei 44
From: lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin)
Date: Sat Feb 17 16:49:31 2007
References: <200702172244.l1HMhCT9023442@server1.waverley.reid.org>

On Feb 17, 2007, at 5:44 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:

> G'day all,
>
> As some of you know, I have a small collection of Rolleiflex cameras.
> The latest "delivery" (its been a few years) arrived this week:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alastair/album184/Collections/
> box.jpg.html>
> http://www.tiny.cc/6IVil
>
> Image 2:
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alastair/album184/Collections/
> comingout.jpg.html>
> http://www.tiny.cc/dD45u
>
> Image 3:
> <<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alastair/album184/Collections/
> delivery.jpg.html>
> http://www.tiny.cc/vsUPE
>
> the 1965 post war baby was really a bit of a failure. Of course,  
> that makes
> it all the more collectable. The shutter is a bit "stiff", but that is
> probably because it looks like very little film went through it.  
> 127 was
> dying when it came out: the film was more expensive than the larger  
> 120
> format and there were few new cameras. Rollei of course kept making  
> them ;-)
>
> Cheers
>
> Alastair


I had one of the earlier models of this little jewel when I was a  
sophmore in college in 1949. Mine was in gray and I recall that it  
had a lever wind. I sold it to pay for the repairs to my '47  
Plymouth. a car that was hardly a paragon of reliability. Too bad. I  
liked that little camera.

Larry Z


Larry Z

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