The RolleiClub presents you here, with some pride, the most comprehensive overview of those cameras that once were and still are available. But still as compact and easy to handle as that very first Rolleiflex from 1929.Ī long line of Rolleiflex, Rolleicord and related cameras has seen. This is why TLR aficionados and serious photographers have approached Franke & Heidecke over and over again with suggestions to continue this classical camera concept with the latest technology.Īs a result we now can enjoy the current line of Rolleiflex 2.8-FX,and 4.0-FW, 2.8-FT cameras.Ĭlassical twin-lens reflex cameras with a highly advanced exposure-control system. Very few companies in the world can boost such a long record with one basic design which has been improved on a regular basis yet still so closely resembles the original invention. Franke & Heidecke are proof of being the master in that field, with the nowadays massive switch-over to digital, the traditional Rolleiflex TLR is still in production AND development. It was the beginning of a technical evolution that would be imitated by many other manufacturers around the Globe with sometimes successful but often poor copies of the bench-mark Rolleiflex. Many world-famous images originated from that small piece of fine mechanical art made bij the factory from Franke and Heidecke in Braunschweig, Germany. For decades, Rolleiflex cameras would have a decisive effect on photographic history. There was no newspaper, no magazine, no photographic book that would not have some Rolleiflex photos in their publications. Being able to work fast with a large size negative, light weight and superior quality made the choice as simple as important. For the professional, the Rolleiflex was like a gift from heaven, it meant a radical change in his/her creative work. Ther was no photographer who would not master one, no apprentice who would not wish to own one. Producing high quality 6圆 cm square negatives in a compact very easy to operate camera, with the best lens available.
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Without any doubt was the introduction in 1929, of the first Rolleiflex Twin Lens Reflex ( TLR ), a sensation: an as ingenious as simple principle that quickly made the Rolleiflex THE must have professional camera all over the world. The Square idea that changed photographic History
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