![]() ![]() Cullum Brown later reported that anything worth any value vanished from the factory with the American Army, and that there was virtually no stock of finished cameras. ![]() I follow the authoritative information by Prochnow and Phillips, but in any case it is surely nowadays one of most rare batches of Rolleiflex cameras.Ĭapt. Claus Prochnow and John Phillips refer that a maximum of 500 were built and Ian Parker 1,000. There are some inconsistencies in the literature regarding the exact production numbers of the wartime batch of the 4x4 Sports Rolleiflex. But with the leftovers from the earlier few years and a very limited new production, F&H managed to make a few cameras during the war, mainly the Automat II, Rolleicords IA type 2/3 and II type 4, and the 4x4 Sports. ![]() Due to the war F&H stopped all research and advancement of Rolleiflex cameras from 1940, and a true new model would only emerge from the Braunschweig factory in 1949, the Automat X. Some materials were in shortage, such as nickel for the metal alloys, and thus many cameras made during or shortly after the war can have lower material quality. The major industries in Germany were contributing to the war effort, and this included the optical and photographic industries such as Franke & Heidecke and Carl Zeiss factories, engaged in developing optical devices for the army (binoculars, periscopes, telescopic sights for sniper rifles, theodolites for directing artillery, etc.) and other warfare components. The fate of the war was beginning to turn, but Germany was still on its feet. ![]()
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