Rollei
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Key facts
- Company.location
- Hamburg, Germanyformerly Braunschweig
- Company.products
- cameras and other optical equipment
- Company.homepage
- www.rollei.com
- Company.name
- Rollei
- Company.logo
- Rollei-Logo.svg
- Company.foundation
- 1 February 1920 asWerkstatt für Feinmechanik und Optik, Franke & Heidecke;Rollei GmbH & Co. KG owns the rights to the "Rollei" brand since 1 January 2015
- Company.founder
- and
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Article
73 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Historical development
- 1920 to 1928
- Company foundation
- Stereo Heidoscop
- Hyperinflation in Germany
- Rolleiflex
- 1929 to 1950
- New premises
- Babyflex
- Studio camera
- Rolleicord
- Rolleiflex Automat
- World War II
- Armaments production
- The post-war period
- 1950 to 1963 – Horst Franke era
- The golden era
- Development of the Rolleiflex
- TLR accessories
- The situation around 1960
- {{anchor|P11|Rollei 16|Rollei 16S}}New products
- 1964 to 1974 – Peesel era
- {{anchor|Rolleiscop}}Reorganisation of the product line
- Rolleiflex SL66
- Rollei 35
- Rolleiflex SL26
- Rolleiflex SL35
- Rollei 35RF
- {{anchor|Strobomatic|Strobofix}}Flash units
- Super 8
- {{anchor|Rolleimat}}Uelzen
- Viewfinder cameras
- {{anchor|Rolloptik}}Singapore
- Voigtländer
- 1975 to 1981 – Peperzak / Wehling / Porst era
- Downsizing the company
- Rolleiflex SLX
- {{anchor|P3800}}Dissolve projectors
- Rolleimatic
- {{anchor|Rolleimat Universal|Heinz Wehling}}Under Nord/LB management
- Hannsheinz Porst
- 1982 to 2003 – Rollei Fototechnic / USH / Mandermann / Samsung / Dume / Capitellum era
- {{anchor|P801}}New owners
- Rolleiflex SL2000 F
- Rollei Metric
- "Classic" project
- Rollei rangefinders
- Prego cameras
- Single-lens medium format systems
- 2004 to 2015 – New Franke & Heidecke / RCP-Technik / DHW era / DW Photo
- Break up
- New owners
- DHW
- DW Photo
- Product overview
- Medium format
- System 6000
- 135 film format
- 126 film format
- Rollei subminiature cameras
- Movie cameras
- Digital
- Electronic flash units
- {{anchor|Rolleivision}}Projectors
- Slide projectors for 5×5 cm frames (35 mm slides)
- Slide projectors for 7×7 cm frames (6×6 cm slides)
- Movie projectors for 8 mm film
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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Rollei () is a German manufacturer of optical instruments founded in 1920 by and in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, and maker of the Rolleiflex and Rolleicord series of cameras. Later products included speciality and nostalgic type films for the photo hobbyist market.