Rolleiflex 6006 lenses on 6008?

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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?

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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.
 
sevo said:
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.
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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.
 
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3js said:
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.
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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
 
sevo said:
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
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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?
 
3js said:
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?
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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
 
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