Nvm. I can not upload photos even under 2mb, sorry..
Thank you, it worked!Scale the image to 1000 pixels on the longest side and it will upload.
Thank you for taking the time to help! So I shouldn’t obsess over the serial number? Because it just doesn’t make any sense. As you said, based on the serial, it should be a New Standard or an Automate 3 — but the body looks like an Automate 1, judging by the missing filter thread.I don't know which sn list you are using but here is a serial number / model list for prewar Rolleiflex:
https://tlr.rolleigraphy.eu/snprewar.php
Rolleiflex models often have overlapping serial number ranges, and according to that page the sn 830nnn could be in the range of either a New Standard or an Automat model 3, presumably because they were making/selling both models at the same time to hit two price points. Yours looks like an Automat (maybe model 1 since I think it has a filter bayonet only on the taking lens). So it's an Automat. I don't think that SN lists are always totally reliable about the small feature differences between different iterations of the same model, that is the seeming inconsistency between SN and whether it's an Automat 1 or 3 is not significant to me (maybe to a Rollei obsessive).
Your camera has the retail packaging and so on (impressive), so I see no reason to think it's an oddball or pre-production.
+1I have a 3,5F, but for black and white I prefer the Automat because I like the character of the Tessar, and the camera is lighter and easier to carry. The 3,5F with its coated Planar (or Xenotar) is of course better for colour.
+1
The basic concept Mr. Heidecke had was a compact and light wight camera
The original Rolleiflex was even designed for small 117 film spools with only 6 exposures. Cameras are fragile, but the 4.5/7.5cm Tessar is a sweet spot among all Rollei lenses for me... works fine for color, sure a lens hood is important.
I once tried a 3,5F, sure a great camera and lens but for me two Rolleiflex Original's or the SLX are the choice "on the road".
Anyway a good Automat with clean optics is fun, too.
Are your Originals modified to take 120? I have a roll of Efke R100 in my Original 3,8 that I haven't finished for 20+ years, and I think I respooled the film onto a 620 spool and the take up spool is 117. I will have to unload the camera in the darkroom.
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