Tele Rolleiflex

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Freddy
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Tele Rolleiflex

Postby Freddy » Mon Sep 16, 2019 11:42 am

A friend of mine has a Tele Rolleiflex from 1960. The body is in pristine condition, but the taking lens has a very visible balsam separation. Has any sense to offer some dollars for this camera? Can be the lens fixed? What could be a good price...if....

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Re: Tele Rolleiflex

Postby atarget3 » Mon Sep 16, 2019 2:05 pm

Model K75 Type I (1960). Total run of Tele Rollei was 8,490 copies. As of 1990 only about 1,200 examples existed, so it's quite rare and collectible camera. Its 135/4 Sonnar taking lens is notorious for balsam separation in front optics. It's estimated that about 90% of existing examples suffer from this flaw. I attached frontal pic of my copy ( no separation in Sonnar optics...) :) but the meter is kaput.....
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Re: Tele Rolleiflex

Postby Freddy » Wed Sep 18, 2019 6:41 am

Thanks a lot atarget3 for this useful info. Warm regards
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