Any Rolleiflex TLR users here?

I feel bad for starting this thread now that its grown to 6 pages
and I have since sold my Rolleiflex I had!
Rob
 
If it's a Bay 1 (30mm) it will. Unless of course you have a pre-war Rolleiflex. I think some of the real early ones did not have the standardized bayonet fitting.

-Paul
 
If it is a bay 1 Rolleiflex, then yes. Rolleiflex went to bay 2 then bay three. Many if not most accessories were for the bay 1 though. Sorry, don't know how to tell you to tell them apart. Maybe somebody else?
 
A Bay 1 hood will fit in theory the Yashicamat, however the accuracy of the bayonet externals seem to vary alot. My bay-1 rollei hood goes on my former Yashica-D bay1 mount but it is very very tight, not nice to use it, while it fit perfectly the rolleicord i had.
This hood goes on the external bayonets; the internal bayonet sizes are perfectly identical, or, at least i have some filters which perfectly fit both the yashinon and the xenar.
 
I think the bay1 hoods from the bay2 and 3 are discernable in the following way: Bay 2 and 3 have the mounting ring on the hood quite bigger than the round side of the hood itself, while the shiny mounting ring on the bay 1 is a continuation of the hood, it does not stick out. I'm not sure i was clear here...:) check on ebay for examples, maybe.
 
I thought Bay 2 and Bay 3 were bigger, for the 2.8 lenses and the Wide and Tele-Rollei?

The authentic Rollei hoods are so expensive that sometimes they cost more than a Yashica TLR anyway.

If you are shopping on-Bay for them search under Accura and Spiratone as well (look for "square hood", sometimes the Sellers have no clue as to what they are). They marketed Bay-1 hoods and filters. Porter's also sells an Indian made Bay-1 hood that is so-so in quality, but does what it is supposed to do.

Now that I have mine, let me also recommend the Ricoh Diacord. It is is the higher end Ricoh TLR with the Tessar formula lens and the twin focusing levers. It more comparable to the Minolta Autocord than it is the Yashica-mat. I'm in the process of restoring one now. It took almost a year of searching auctions before I found one that I wanted and at a reasonable price.

-Paul
 
Hi... I'm only an occasional visitor to this forum. I shoot with Rollei TLRs and a Mamiya 6, neither of which are much discussed here. For quality of image and ease of focusing, I prefer the Rollei and for all around convenience I like the Mamiya.

I believe the Rolleiwide uses Bay IV.

Ed
 
I have a Rollei Bay 1 hood which I use without issue on my 124G. The Rollei hoods can be expensive (I jumped on a BIN deal at ebay for a reasonable price) but they are more commonly found than the Yashica hoods, which also command a decent price.
 
My original Rollei Bay 1 hood does NOT fit on my Bay one Yashicamat!

Roman
 
This post and the next one will have pictures attached that I've taken with my Zeiss-Ikon Ikoflex model II/III....... a pre-war TLR with uncoated Tessar lens. I used an orange filter for both shots and Freestyle Edu-200 film developed in Rodinal 1:100.

This is one of the buildings at the Air Museum beside of Robins Air Force Base, Warner Robins, Georgia. The aircraft sitting in front is a C-46.

Walker
 
This picture of a B-52 bomber has been heavily manipulated to exclude almost all detail in the bottom part of the picture.

Walker
 
My Flexaret Va arrived this morning from Cupog. Lovely. It's loaded with XP2 for some tests. I shot a lot of black and white in the 1970s but never used filters. My Flexaret III had a partial set and a lens hood. I picked up another partial set from Cupog and here they all are with my new Va. Both sets of filters cost about the same as two new filters and I got a camera (IIIa) and a lens hood, too. It's real handy that the Va has a table of filter factors on the back. It will make learning filters for black and white a lot easier. The camera, filters, and lens hood certainly do not have the build quality of some of the German and Japanese TLRs but the lens is supposed to be excellent and that is what takes the pictures. I'm looking foreward to shooting this. Only after shooting my rangefinders, of course!
 
Roman said:
My original Rollei Bay 1 hood does NOT fit on my Bay one Yashicamat!

Roman
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Isn't one of the Stella bros. who claim that used a Rolley Bay I lens hood on his Yashica Mat and later the thing simply won't come out !!? Just like Garrett said while walking on that railing with 20m to the ground.... CAAAREFUL... ;)
 
No danger of that happening here - there's no way that my Rollei hood will mount on the Yashica...

Roman
 
i had the same with the yashica D i've sent you Taffer. The rollei hood was fitting so tight that i did not dare to put it on:)
 
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