In photography, necessity has always been the mother of invention – and a number of very pressing needs gave rise to the Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex (TLR) camera, a design that survived for 70 years.
The story begins in 1905 when a young German engineer, Reinhold Heidecke, joined Voigtländer – then a manufacturer of telescopes and binoculars – to start a new camera design department.
