Looking for a hood & filters for a 1949 Rolleiflex 2.8A with Zeiss Opton 2.8 Tessar

[nelly001]

Looking for a hood & filters for a 1949 Rolleiflex 2.8A with Zeiss Opton 2.8 Tessar

Mainly looking for a hood for my 1949 Rolleiflex 2.8A with the Zeiss Opton 2.8 Tessar.
(Great old Rolleiflex for portraits and the camera was given to me by my Girlfriend now my Wife, so this one will always be with me 🙂 but despite occasional searches I have never found a hood that would fit )

I know these cameras take a rare type of Bay II lens hood and the standard bay II hoods do not fit. From my understanding there was a special bay II hood from 1949-50. The later ones are different. I have read that some people have ground down the bay II hoods to fit but hopefully can find an original one.

The Filters I think are standard Bay II.
Thanks for your advice

 

[Dan Daniel]

Filters are standard Bay II.

I didn't find a clean alternative hood. Then I lucked into an original hood for this model and stopped thinking about it. Then I lent the camera and hood to someone who disappeared. If you find a solution, let me know as I have a second 2.8A and could use a hood.

 

[nelly001]

Filters are standard Bay II.

I didn't find a clean alternative hood. Then I lucked into an original hood for this model and stopped thinking about it. Then I lent the camera and hood to someone who disappeared. If you find a solution, let me know as I have a second 2.8A and could use a hood.

I Guess from the lack of responses these are hard to come by.
Sorry to hear about you losing one and the camera too.

 

[Dan Daniel]

Now that I think about it, I think I was able to use a later Bay II hood by installing it and rotating it backwards a bit. You could also either grind away the inner stops, maybe break the hood part away and re-attach it, etc. The Bay II fitting is the same as later Bay IIs, it's just been rotated.

EDIT: I just tested a Bay II hood on my A. I see that I had to gring away one area and that it sort ofhangs in place, two tabs solid but the top one loose.

And then I remembered- I have a couple of Bay II to 52mm adapters. They work fine on the A. Just get a 52mm hood. If you want one of mine, $10 mailed; drop a PM and we can do the details.

 

[Peter de Waal]

I have one of those hoods, question is where...

 

[nelly001]

Now that I think about it, I think I was able to use a later Bay II hood by installing it and rotating it backwards a bit. You could also either grind away the inner stops, maybe break the hood part away and re-attach it, etc. The Bay II fitting is the same as later Bay IIs, it's just been rotated.

EDIT: I just tested a Bay II hood on my A. I see that I had to gring away one area and that it sort ofhangs in place, two tabs solid but the top one loose.

And then I remembered- I have a couple of Bay II to 52mm adapters. They work fine on the A. Just get a 52mm hood. If you want one of mine, $10 mailed; drop a PM and we can do the details.

I would have thought using a 52mm adapter and hood would obstruct the viewing lens some. Thanks for the tip though.

 

[Dan Daniel]

I would have thought using a 52mm adapter and hood would obstruct the viewing lens some. Thanks for the tip though.

Yeah, you would think so. But it really doesn't matter, it seems. I've used a Bay I to 52mm adapter on Bay I cameras and the adapter covers the bottom third of the viewing lens. And almost no perceptible dimming and a full image on the focus screen. Go figure....