Difference between revisions of "Baby Rolleiflex (1957)"

From Camera-wiki.org
Jump to: navigation, search
m (Rolleiflex Baby Grey moved to Baby Rolleiflex (1957): there are duplicate pages on that model, sorting the mess out)
(moved contents from the other page on the Baby Rolleiflex)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{stub}}
+
{{German TLR
{| class="plainlinks floatright" style="text-align: center;"
+
|image=[http://www.flickr.com/photos/zwartwit/2214306453/in/pool-camerapedia http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2144/2214306453_c4fa35e069.jpg]<br>''Picture by zwartwit. {{with permission}}''
 +
}}
 +
The Automatic Rolleiflex 4x4, popularly known as the "gray baby" Rolleiflex, was introduced in 1957, at an announced list price of USD $133.65.<ref>Popular Photography (USA) Volume 41 No. 1, July 1957. "IPEX; The Products" [Report on the March, 1957 International Photo Exhibition, Washington D.C.] pg.105.</ref> It is a knob-advance twin-lens reflex yielding 12 exposures of 4x4cm on 127 film. It has a [[Schneider]] Xenar 60/3.5 taking lens and a Heidosmat 60/2.8 viewing lens.
 +
 
 +
This model helped kick-start a brief boom for 38mm × 38mm "super slides" (whose slide mounts were the same external dimensions as 35mm slides, but offering a larger image area), and inspired several Japanese lookalikes such as the [[Yashica 44]].
 +
 
 +
By 1959 the gray baby's advertised list price had dropped to USD $99.50, <ref>Modern Photography (USA) Volume 23 No. 9, September 1959. "Quality Counts" (advertisement), pg. 19.</ref> perhaps a reflection of waning interest in the format.
 +
 
 +
{| class="plainlinks" align="center" style="text-align: center;"
 
|| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/16822508@N05/2184015618/ http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2329/2184015618_1804a0e6fc.jpg]
 
|| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/16822508@N05/2184015618/ http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2329/2184015618_1804a0e6fc.jpg]
 
|-
 
|-
Line 6: Line 14:
 
|}
 
|}
  
The Automatic Rolleiflex 4x4, popularly known as the "gray baby" Rolleiflex, was introduced in 1957, at an announced list price of USD $133.65.<ref>Popular Photography (USA) Volume 41 No. 1, July 1957. "IPEX; The Products" [Report on the March, 1957 International Photo Exhibition, Washington D.C.] pg.105.</ref> It was a knob-advance twin-lens reflex yielding 12 exposures of 4x4cm on 127 film.
+
== Notes ==
 
 
This model helped kick-start a brief boom for 38mm x 38mm "super slides" (whose slide mounts were the same external dimensions as 35mm slides, but offering a larger image area), and inspired several Japanese lookalikes such as the [[Yashica 44]].
 
 
 
By 1959 the gray baby's advertised list price had dropped to USD $99.50, <ref>Modern Photography (USA) Volume 23 No. 9, September 1959. "Quality Counts" (advertisement), pg. 19.</ref> perhaps a reflection of waning interest in the format.
 
 
 
==Notes==
 
 
<references/>
 
<references/>
  
==Links:==
+
== Links ==
 
+
* [http://www.rolleiclub.com/cameras/tlr/info/4x4_tlr.shtml Baby Rolleiflex at Rolleiclub]
 
* [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/rollei/html/Rolleiflex_44.php Grey Baby Rollei] on [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/general/html/francais.php www.collection-appareils.fr] by Sylvain Halgand
 
* [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/rollei/html/Rolleiflex_44.php Grey Baby Rollei] on [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/general/html/francais.php www.collection-appareils.fr] by Sylvain Halgand
  

Revision as of 15:16, 21 March 2009

The Automatic Rolleiflex 4x4, popularly known as the "gray baby" Rolleiflex, was introduced in 1957, at an announced list price of USD $133.65.[1] It is a knob-advance twin-lens reflex yielding 12 exposures of 4x4cm on 127 film. It has a Schneider Xenar 60/3.5 taking lens and a Heidosmat 60/2.8 viewing lens.

This model helped kick-start a brief boom for 38mm × 38mm "super slides" (whose slide mounts were the same external dimensions as 35mm slides, but offering a larger image area), and inspired several Japanese lookalikes such as the Yashica 44.

By 1959 the gray baby's advertised list price had dropped to USD $99.50, [2] perhaps a reflection of waning interest in the format.

Notes

  1. Popular Photography (USA) Volume 41 No. 1, July 1957. "IPEX; The Products" [Report on the March, 1957 International Photo Exhibition, Washington D.C.] pg.105.
  2. Modern Photography (USA) Volume 23 No. 9, September 1959. "Quality Counts" (advertisement), pg. 19.

Links