roy_faverty

<p>Frank, I still come back to this old site because it is interesting to read every ones experience and opinions about the Rollei SL family. One of my Rollei SL 35s fell 35 to 50 feet down the face of a coarse rock waste dump at a mine up in Montana. I bought it while in graduate school in Berkeley and was so fondly attached to it I scrambled down the face of the dump to retrieve it. Dump faces are unstable for many years so it was dangerous. The camera was badly damaged, including the penta-prism and the shutter and quiet old by then. Neither Rollei USA or Marflex would repair it and both told me to just buy a use one. So it sat on the shelf for 15 years. About ten years ago I met Dave Fenny a senior technician from Rollei USA and Marflex, he had lots of part, he pounded out the dents and dings on the top plate, repaired or replace the pentaprism, shutter and counter for a fair price. It took about three month to repair as the old glues and lubricants hand to be remove and the shutter curtain's flexability had to be restore as it had been frozen in a half cocked place for the 15 years. However, when he was finished the camera felt better than a when it was new, I acquired an unused Rollei SL 35 from Germany of about the same age. They are in fact very durable. I think the best lens is the Planar f1.4 made in Germany. The Rollei SL35 E is great little camera, but the earliest products need to be clean and re-lubiricated early in their life. I did not know that at the time I own one and gave it to a friend. She loved the camera after she had it serviced. <br> I now use the lenses on a Lumix GX7, they work well together, but my Leica lenses made for the Lumix bodies are better in terms of resolution, as to be expect of a lens designed for M4/3 sensors. None the less, I love the feel of Zeiss and Schneider lenses on the Lumix cameras.<br> Cheers<br> Roy</p>

<p>Craig, I am sure you have solved this problem by now, but just in case I will till you my solution to scanning my 35mm glass mounted diapositives and negatives. The glass surface is detected by the scanner and the resulting scan is soft, way to soft with contrast lost. I just remounted them in very snug glassless Gepe and Wess slide mounts. They are held very flat and scan beautifully when placed in the slide holder. <br> The main value of glass mounts is for projection of slides and negative when teaching as they appear evenly sharp from edge to edge. Who does that anymore?</p> <p> </p>