Strange Robot Royal II - screwmount lens and no rangefinder?

cmo

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• Feb 27, 2012

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Does anyone know more about this rare beauty?

It seems to be a Robot Royal Mod. II - which is already very rare - but mine looks slightly different than one I saw on ebay: the accessory shoe is much higher. It seems as if not all of those 1000 that were built were made the same way.

Is this the "Dr. Strangelove Edition"?

 

Paul Howell

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• Feb 27, 2012

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I had a Robot without a rangerfinder, but like you said seems very differnt, even the logo looks more "modern".

 

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• Feb 28, 2012

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I will put that baby into the Classifieds - maybe a collector needs it.

 

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• Feb 28, 2012

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NOOOOO, don't sell it to a collector. That camera just screams street cred! It needs to be used (way out of my price range though....)

 

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• Nov 29, 2014

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A friend had a Robot with no rangefinder but a 75 mm lens that his father had pulled from a downed Me109 during the war. It was a gun camera.