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Two German manufacturers : Paul Franke and Reinhold
Heidecke are at origin of the creation in 1929 of the legendary Rolleiflex
camera range.
The Rolleiflex Original is the first model of this range of
cameras. Immediately it becomes a "must have" for the photo-reporters of
this time.
Its concept is totally new : a reflex viewfinder using a
dedicated lens, its 6x6 square format but above all the extremely high
quality of the Carl Zeiss lenses, make all the reputation of this
camera.
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Rolleiflex Original - modèle 2
(Lens Tessar 1:3,8 f=75mm) |
Two versions of the Rolleiflex Original have been made.
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The model 1 is not hinged; the back side has to be
positioned within a groove. The ring around the finder lens has no
distance scale. |
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The model 2 is hinged. |
Early models used a film format 117 which was giving 6
exposures photographies of a 6 x 6 format. Later, a converter allowed to
use films 120 or 620 allowing this time 12 exposures, but always to a 6
x 6 format.
Despite this camera has a film counting window on its
back side, the big problem of this camera was that at that time, none of
the 117, 120 or 620 films had the mark for a 6 x 6 format. Each one had
to find a solution to remediate this problem... with each time more or
less success. |
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Two different configurations were offered (for taking
lens ) :
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Zeiss Tessar 1:4,5 f=75mm (the
cheaper but also the most common) |
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Zeiss Tessar 1:3.8 f=75mm (rare and
expensive !) |
The finder lens is a Heidoscop 1:3.1 f=75mm
The shutter F.Deckel-Compur offers speeds from 1/300 sec to 1 second and
pause B and T. |
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