Haze in Rollei Lenses?

[sepiareverb]

Been noticing in ads for recent Rollei 35mm stuff mention of "slight haze". Both in P&S cameras and in several of the 40/2.8 LTM Sonnars for the RF. Anyone had a newer Rollei lens opened up and the haze removed?

 

[srtiwari]

I saw one on sale on another forum, and now mine. But I have seen several that did not seem to have haze. Also another RFFer bought a clean one recently, as did I - which I am keeping ! 🙂
So...hopefully there is no trend.
BTW, I spoke with the famous Leica repair"person" who does a complete lens CLA for $125. I assume that would take care of it.

 

[sepiareverb]

I guess we saw the same one. Seems a bit early for haze doesn't it? They're not all that old.

 

[back alley]

haze can be a result of how a lens is stored also, no?

 

[MartinP]

I'm curious - do you mean the Cosina r/f Rolleis, or the little 35S removable-back models, or ???

 

[back alley]

cosina shell, rollei lens for rf.

 

[srtiwari]

I guess others have agonized over this as well....
http://nemeng.com/leica/046b.shtml

 

[noimmunity]

The haze in the Rollei 40/2.8 LTM mount was reportedly due to the lens case supplied with the lens.

 

[jonmanjiro]

there was a huge batch of rollei sonnar 40/2.8 lenses with varying levels of haze that hit the shops in tokyo six to twelve months back. not sure why they had haze... stored badly maybe? since then, i've seen a few that have been cleaned and they come up fine.

 

[srtiwari]

there was a huge batch of rollei sonnar 40/2.8 lenses with varying levels of haze that hit the shops in tokyo six to twelve months back. not sure why they had haze... stored badly maybe? since then, i've seen a few that have been cleaned and they come up fine.

Thanks, that's good to know, since I still own it. Any recommendations as to the best/least expensive repair place ?

 

[rover]

There was one on ebay too. Good to hear it can be (?) traced to one batch of lenses.