Rolleiflex original

Hello,

 

I would kike to know what is this socket on the top left panel of this Rolleiflex Original ? Is it a socket

for flash photography ?

In the normal Rolleiflex Original , this socket doesn't exist.

Thank you for your answers.

 

Yannick Michel

Looks like PC socket for flash sync.

Yes I think so too.

Often I see an Old standard with this socket but first time I see one on the Original.

I will tell you when I receive the camera in a few days.

Rollie used a different plug for PC connection,than did other cameras. It has a locking device to help keep the cord from coming out. Here is a link to he one that fits my camera, I can't tell if it would work on your model.

 

http://www.paramountcords.com/rollei.asp

Are the lenses in that original as hazy as they look?

 

I love those locking tips but I don't think they came along till a little later. I wish the FX

still had them but it doesn't.

The lenses are crystal clear, not hazy at all.

Ma be some of these cameras were transformed for studio work but later in the 40's. This

is mysterious for me.

May be Ferdy Stuttenheim could have interesting comments to give us ?

The flash cord locking mechanism, started on the Rolleicord V of 1954. The Rolleiflex with the locking was introduced on the 3.5 MX-EVS of 1954 as well as on the 2.8 C in 1953.

 

The simple socket as depicted on Yannick's Original was common on the first synch Rolleicord III in 1950 as well as on the Rolleicord IV of 1953. The 3.5 Rolleiflex X of 1949 and on the MX of 1951. The Rolleiflex 2.8A didn't have the locking as well as the 2.8B

 

The Rolleiflexes with a flash synch, were used extensively by the photojournalists in the fifties thus, leading to the Graphic's demise as a primo camera for the newspapers.

 

Since the Rolleiflex were expensive, a cheaper solution, was to add a synch to the older ones.

Interesting Tito. So you think this synchro socket could have been added in the 50's ?

The socket could have ben added in the 1950's; 1960's, 1970's.

The 1936 Rolleicord Ia shown on p, 30 of IanParker's book has a flash synch. Parker's 1030 Original shows added buld sych contacts added to the example in his book. The 1945 Automat Rolleiflex had factory installed pc on the bottom right.

Yannick's Original had the pc and cord stay added which was common of professionals as the flash technology advanced. Tito is correct about the locking pc cord. It was used on their prefessional cameras through the SLX model 2 until 1984

 

Have y'll noticed that the RolleiClub information on the Original and Standard lens diameter data is reversed??? I could not find how to let them know, thus I am pointing it out here. I looked there about the lens hood question earlier. I have not found any information on the Original lens hood.

Jorge

Yannick said "The lenses are crystal clear, not hazy at all" If you are waiting for the arrival of the camera, how do you know if the lens is or is not clear?

Because I trust the person... I bought from this person a beautiful Rolleicord Art Deco and

the description was cjust as it was mentionned... Well may be I'm too naive... Even if it is

hazy, a Tessar can be clean easily.

You're right Jorge about the Rolleiclub information about the Original lens diameter, I also

noticed this mistake :)

I received the Rolleiflex and the socket is for flash photography.

It will be interesting to try this camera in a studio.