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- From: paul@eye.com (Paul B. Booth)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Rollie S?000 (was: Re: Nikon F3)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.094930.23574@eye.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 14:49:30 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.143458.25380@nic.funet.fi> <1993Jan19.215038.1109@dragon.acadiau.ca>
- Keywords: Nikon F3 interchangeable film cassettes
- Organization: 3D/EYE, Inc. Ithaca, NY
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- In article <1993Jan19.215038.1109@dragon.acadiau.ca> 871323o@dragon.acadiau.ca (Oliver Oey) writes:
- >tommila@convex.csc.FI (Tero Tommila) writes:
- >
- >Somebody did make a body like this. However, I don't remember the
- >exact brand name, could have been Minotla or Mamiya. I can recall
- >about ten years ago a shutterbug friend of mine brought me along to a
- >camera distributor when I was living in Hong Kong to see that camera.
- >That particular model was newly introduced and being displayed at the
- >distributor's office at the time. The body looked very much like a
- >Hasselblad.
- >
- That would have to be the Rollie S3000 (S2000 maybe?). Set up to work pretty
- much like a classic 2.25x2.25. A motorized "cube" body onto which you clipped
- lens, finder, and film magazine. It was pretty much designed for studio work,
- and was supposed to be a very well designed camera. Unfortunately, it's heavy,
- balky, and $$ compared to conventional 35mm's for field work, and 35mm just
- doesn't resolve like 2 1/4 in the studio, so it didn't do very well in the
- market. KEH and others have plenty of used ones around at decent prices if
- you're interested!
-
- Regards-
- --
- Paul B. Booth (paul@eye.com)
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