I just could not resist!

[campy]

I now have a Rolleiflex 3.5F and the 2.8E both with Planar lenses. The 2.8E has the beginnings of lens separation around the outer edge but nothing showing up in the photos. I keep telling myself I don't need both but neither one has stepped forward and volunteered to be sold.

 

[zuiko85]

".....walk past the local camera store,..."

What means phrase "local camera store"?
Haven't seen one of those in years.

 

[jchfriis]

".....walk past the local camera store,..."

What means phrase "local camera store"?
Haven't seen one of those in years.

Unfortunately that is the situation in many countries, but this is Denmark where the big malls and the internet have not taken over everything. There are still individual butchers, bakers, cheese vendors etc. in every town. Camera stores are not that prevalent of course, but some have survived.

 

[DownUnder]

I now have a Rolleiflex 3.5F and the 2.8E both with Planar lenses. The 2.8E has the beginnings of lens separation around the outer edge but nothing showing up in the photos. I keep telling myself I don't need both but neither one has stepped forward and volunteered to be sold.

My beloved 3.5E2 has been with me for all my adult life (I was born in 1947 and bought the Rollei in 1966) and has had a distinctly visible egg-shaped blob of separation since the 1990s. I use it regularly, mostly at f/11 or a bit past, and so far it shows absolutely nyet in the negatives I print from it. Here in Australia balsam separation in a lens is a bummer of a task for an expert to fix, with often unsatisfactory results, so I hope yours will be the same and you can go on shooting with it forever and a day.

Rolleis are like pet cats. They move in with you and wrap themselves around your heart and hang around forever, well, almost. Our cats came to us as wee small kittens and lived to about 15 years. My 54 year old E2 is still going strong and will probably outlast me. A big difference - they also don't shed fur on all the carpets like our pusses do.

Wow, congratulations, my first Rolleiflex was also a T inherited from my father. I liked it so much I needed another, so purchased a 2.8E. I think I’m good now, but you never know, right?

Ha! Give in now, save yourself the suffering. Rollei GAS is an incurable condition and like all viruses, soooo contagious...

 

[jchfriis]

In the same town where I found the Rolleiflex I saw this classic MG A which is about 10 years older than the camera. Picture taken with the Rolleiflex on Portra 400.

[/url]MG A by J. Christian Hedegaard-Friis, on Flickr[/IMG]

 

[KoNickon]

What manner of place is this, with such antique treasures in plain view? 🙂

I have, um, a number of Rolleis, but have never held, much less owned, a T. The camera with all those accessories for $700 Australian seems like a fine bargain to me. Even the case looks new!

 

[JPD]

I have, um, a number of Rolleis, but have never held, much less owned, a T. The camera with all those accessories for $700 Australian seems like a fine bargain to me. Even the case looks new!

I also have many Rolleis, and like you I have never owned or held a T. In the late 1990s I called on an ad for a new old stock T, but someone had already bought it. 🙁