Rollei Rolleiflex 3,5 Automat (K.4 630) |
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Manufactured or assembled in Germany from 1937 to 1938.
Index of rarity in France: Rare (among non-specialized garage sales)
Inventory number: 12783
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Traduction de Eliott GERWILL.
With the Automat, Rollei gave to his twin-lens reflex camera its aspect that we have the habit to see and recognize as THE Rolleiflex.
Its two knurls juste beside the lenses on the front of the body, the crack handle on this side, its big buttons on the other side, its viewfinder at the top and the hole body dressed in black. All of this has made the legend of the easy to use camera, with the invisible mechanism but so sophisticated !
Named "Automat" because, when you load the 120 film between the sensor-rolls, the view-counter starts as these sensor-rolls perceive the extra-thickness of the film with the adhesive sticking it to the protective paper. Then, everything is a chain-reaction: the winding lever blocks at the first view; hardly one half-turn backwards to wind on the shutter and the camera is ready to shoot.
Other novelties compared to the latest Old Standard, the 622: a second security lock improves the closure of the back and the film spool is now attached by the shafts on both sides of the camera's bottom like the receiving spool.
The Automat 1 kept from the previous Old Standard the lens and shutter specifications: the 75mm F:3,5 Tessar lens and the Compur Rapid shutter with shutter-speed from 1s to 1/500 and Bulb.
The taking lens only, has a bayonet mount, called B1, adopted by the whole Automat line. On the aiming lens, a simple interlocking system we find back on the next Automat lenses too but with the bayonet mount except from the last 6th line. (MX-EVS)
Produced from 1937 to 1939, this model carries serial numbers from 568516 to 805000.
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