What lens does it have? The Zeiss Triotar 75/3.5 is known not to be very sharp, especially wide open.
Looks like what I got recently when I reassembled a Minolta Autocord and had a spacer around the shutter mount go askew. I bet opening up the lens shroud and reassembling things squarely will clear it up. Or the focus rails are out of alignment.
Bah, Triotars aren't bad. These were taken with a 1939 Rolleicord:
I think you proved my unstated point -- they make for great portrait lenses! And "sharp" is a very relative term! "Not as sharp" as a Xenar can still be pretty sharp! Great images, BTW!
The 'cord I have (serial number 751641) must be the same model as yours. If I trusted the students with its film-loading system (not complicated -- I just don't trust the students!), I'd get it CLA'd. I do check out the other two 'cords (VB's) to our students -- how can I not?! I learned photography with a "flex over 30 years ago!
Not sure the model, maybe the A or B, from I think right after the war there was a mix up in lenses and Rollei had to recall a bunch of cameras to match taking with viewing lens. Maybe your camera is one of those that didn't get fixed. I believe the lens was a Tessar.
There's a lot of stress in the blurred parts, just like it looked when the lens on my Ensign camera wasn't parallell to the film.
It can be a simple fix, if it's just the short "tube" behind the shutter that needs to be tightened.
Often Rolleis have been 'fixed' by technicians whose epitaphs should read, "Oh, I've always wanted to work on one of THESE !"
Send it to a real Rollei tech and have it made new again. It will STILL be an inexpensive camera. You have a FINE camera.
I learned photography with a "flex over 30 years ago!
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