Rollei 3.5E parallax correction, how?

[colin jackson]

I just finished an experiment to determine if there is some sort of parallax correction required for my

3.5E, considering the 2 inches between lens centers.

 

Putting a piece of wax paper over the film gate and comparing the view from 3 feet to infinity, I could

not detect ANY parallax and can see that there is no moving mask as I have removed the finder/screen

to reveal a fixed mask, not a moving one suggested on a photo.net archive search. I noticed, finally,

that the image shifted as I focussed which seemed impossible but there it was. The only conclusion

that I can come to is that the viewing 45 degree mirror must shift. Can anyone confirm the mirrow

shift?

 

Now I know why there was no mention of a parallax correction in my downloaded PDF manual.

[colin jackson]

OK, I'm an idiot. Yes, there is a moving mask, a lovely little pair of rotating bars on front a

back of the body under the screen. I wish I knew a way of removing my post to prevent

further embarrassment. As Emily Latella used to say, never mind..

[david_littleboy__tokyo__ja]

It's even better than that: the closeup lens kits add a bit of parallax correction of their own, so even closeups work.