Planar 35F Planar not that sharp

[jeff1]

> Sorry I can't help about where to get it serviced in Europe. You can get brighter screens for them- Beattie being. I bet the list will have a few good suggestions on servicing and screens. Good luck, Jeff

 

[butlp]

>My 1953 Rolleicord IV had the same dark ground glass screen. I now refer to it as my "auto-focus" medium-format camera, as it has a great, light-grabbing modern screen that snaps into focus and is usable even in candlelight. It is a Maxwell Hi-Lux Brilliant Matte screen, and I don't know if you can get them in Denmark, although Mr. Maxwell will probably send you one. Be careful to have someone who works with Rollei install it (or any modern screen), as they must shim it correctly to make it focus properly. Save the old screen, in case you sell the camera to a collector some day. I've got a Schneider lens, not your lens. However mine has great sharpness even if it lacks the contrast and color saturation of a modern lens. Resolution drops off at wide-open apertures. This is typical of the good lenses of that era. It is still worth paying for the CLA, especially as you have gotten the camera inexpensively.

 

[butlp]

> DBP = Deutsches Bundes Patent DBGM=Deutsches Bundes Gebrauchs Musterschutz (trade mark) note: If your camera had been assembled from pre-war parts, it would have had DRP and DRGM instead. The "Opton Tessar" tells you that it has a West German lens, this model was also shipped with lenses from Jena. As for the red "T", I believe it refers to Zeiss coating (invented by them, but not protected by patent after the war). Someone else will have to confirm this last detail, as I may be wrong!

 

[Ruben_blaedel]

>Thanks Jeff and Paul I will try to look for a eurpean repair - I have just got back into shooting hasselblad after years pause and if i can get this rollie working it will be the fist time since I was a kid i shot with a twin lens again - i would love to se a genetic fusion of the hassy and the rollie - the small dials to set time and aparture are really great and much more right ergonomic then the turning the lens on the hassy

 

[francprieto]

Sharpness of a Rolleiflex 3.5F, Planar 75, year 1962. The film used was FP4+ rated at 50 ISO and the developer was an old pyro+dietil formula. The results are at least as good as modern Planars. Impressive!

 

[mshabbir_gill]

i hve Rolleiflex 2.8F sr.#12383407 with Schineder Kreuznach lens and in use since years alongwith rolleikin. Unfortunately its lens cap fallen in a jungle and locally tried to locate here in Lahore-Pakistan but could not find. A sliver was got melted but not fitting properly to save itsprecious lens. Someone told me its wide/tele kits are also available. May i request from where i can locate tele/wide kits and idea of its lens cap even plastic cap can save from scratches. Thanks.

 

[jeff1]

If you look on eBay they have a lot of Rollei stuff. The stuff you want will turn up probably sooner rather than later.
Jeff

 

[siu_fung]

>The litte glas on the view finder is broken;somebody can help me to find that little glas?Thanks
you may be find old segull 4bi tlr ,it is copy from rollei, so it may be ok. and it is seem the glass made form east-germary.