Rolleiflex 6006 lenses on 6008?

[3js]

And the question is does the 6008 Professionals light metering work with older lenses? I just aquired a 6008 Professional and I have only older 6006 lenses, so I can´t test the camera properly. It seems to me that all automatic functions are out, is this right? Should the 6008 Professional support metering in the manual mode?

Only manuals I was able to find were for newer ones, Integral and SRC 1000, but they are different?

Thanks!

 

[Mackinaw]

Lenses for the 6008/6003 are called PQ and PQS lenses. You can use non-PQ lenses (for older Rollei SLRs') on the 6008 and 6003. I've used a non-PQ 150mm on my 6003. See this for more info:

http://homepage.mac.com/fwstutterheim/rugarchives/2000-01/01026.html

Jim B.

 

[sevo]

IIRC you can still meter stopped down. In automatic modes that means you'll either have to toggle the aperture between framing and shot, or be permanently stopped down, with a more or less dim finder. Whether the latter matters or not really depends on your use patterns - in a studio context with common apertures in the 11-16 range that might be a severe nuisance, for night portraits where you are pretty much stuck on wide open it is almost irrelevant.

 

[3js]

IIRC you can still meter stopped down. In automatic modes that means you'll either have to toggle the aperture between framing and shot, or be permanently stopped down, with a more or less dim finder. Whether the latter matters or not really depends on your use patterns - in a studio context with common apertures in the 11-16 range that might be a severe nuisance, for night portraits where you are pretty much stuck on wide open it is almost irrelevant.

Ok, so my camera is faulty? Manual metering is impossible, no green light shows up no matter how I try. And in any automatic mode exposure times are very long. My back is also the older one, but I have compensated it as it is told in the manual for 6008 src 1000.

 

[sevo]

Ok, so my camera is faulty? Manual metering is impossible, no green light shows up no matter how I try. And in any automatic mode exposure times are very long. My back is also the older one, but I have compensated it as it is told in the manual for 6008 src 1000.

I don't think I ever used the 6008 outside a studio and without flash. But as far as I remember I had to press the meter and stop-down button simultaneously to get a meaningful reading, but otherwise it was metering just like with the newer lenses, just off by the (unknown, to the camera) aperture difference.

Sevo

 

[3js]

I don't think I ever used the 6008 outside a studio and without flash. But as far as I remember I had to press the meter and stop-down button simultaneously to get a meaningful reading, but otherwise it was metering just like with the newer lenses, just off by the (unknown, to the camera) aperture difference.

Sevo

I did some further checking inside the camera, and found that the cord that goes behind the mirror to the body is cut off, so I believe no information is transfered to the body? Now what shall I do, send it back?

 

[sevo]

I did some further checking inside the camera, and found that the cord that goes behind the mirror to the body is cut off, so I believe no information is transfered to the body? Now what shall I do, send it back?

Send it back - a in depth repair that needs factory spare parts probably won't be economic compared to the going rate for 6008 bodies.

Sevo