Rolleiflex 6001 professional
Rollei · Rollei 6000 mount · 6×6 on 120 or 220 in the 6008-type magazines; 6×4.5 with the 4560 magazine · 1998
Also known as: Rolleiflex 6001 professional · Rolleiflex 6001 Professional · Rolleiflex 6001 · Rollei 6001 · Rollei 6001 professional · Rollei 6001 Pro · Rolleiflex 6001 studio · Rolleiflex 6001 body · ローライフレックス 6001 · ローライフレックス 6001 プロフェッショナル · ローライ 6001
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6001 professional | Rollei 6000 | 1998 | — | Not published; the English Wikipedia model table leaves its end date as '?' |
- Dates: 1998 in both Wikipedias; no source read gives an end date, so none is carried. The 6000 System as a whole ended in 2015 (English Wikipedia).
- Metering patterns, frame rate and magazine type are the English Wikipedia model-table row: '6001 | 1998 | ? | Interchangeable | Flash | Centre-weighted multi-zone, spot, and multi-spot | Max 1.5 frames/sec.'
- No weight, dimensions or price were found in a source read for this entry; rolleigraphy.eu says only that it was priced below the 6003.
How to tell them apart
- A 6003 professional body with no ambient-light metering: no aperture-priority, shutter-priority or program modes, manual exposure and manual focus only
- Takes 6008-type magazines, so a 6×4.5 magazine or a second 6×6 back fits without removing anything
- Times PQS lenses to 1/1000 s; takes PQ, EL and PQS lenses, and the AF lenses as manual-focus lenses
- Listing trap: '6001' also appears in dealer stock numbers and in Rollei projector names; the body reads Rolleiflex 6001 professional on the front
6001 professional:
- 6001 professional on the body; the shell of the 6003 professional with no ambient-light exposure modes to select
- Interchangeable magazines of the 6008 type rather than the 6003's insert back (Wikipedia model table)
- 6001 professional: The only model. Rolleigraphy: "For studio use a model 6001, lacking most of the refined multi-system auto-exposure module, is even more competitively priced", and it "only supports flash metering". Japanese Wikipedia adds manual focus and manual exposure only.
Specifications
- Format
- 6×6 on 120 or 220 in the 6008-type magazines; 6×4.5 with the 4560 magazine
- Finder
- Interchangeable: folding waist-level hood as standard, with the 45° and 90° prism finders of the 6000 line; focusing screen interchangeable
- Shutter
- Electronically timed leaf shutter in every lens, driven by linear motors through the bayonet contacts · 30 s–1/500 s in whole steps with PQ and EL lenses; 1/1000 s with PQS lenses (Wikipedia; rolleigraphy.eu) · flash sync Leaf shutter: all speeds; TTL off-the-film flash metering is the camera's only metering · no self-timer
- Film advance
- Built-in motor, single frame or continuous to a maximum of 1.5 frames per second (Wikipedia model table)
- Back
- Interchangeable magazines (Wikipedia model table)
- Meter
- TTL off-the-film flash metering only, centre-weighted multi-zone, spot and multi-spot; no ambient-light meter, so exposure is set manually (Wikipedia; rolleigraphy.eu; Japanese Wikipedia)
- Motor drive
- Compatible — Motor built in; rechargeable NiCd pack rated at about 500–600 exposures per charge for the line (Wikipedia)
- Country
- Germany
- Accessories
- 6008-type film magazines for 120 and 220, 6×6 and 6×4.5 · 45° and 90° prism finders, interchangeable focusing screens · Action grip, rechargeable NiCd pack and charger · SCA flash adapters for TTL flash metering
What reviewers say
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History
The 6001 professional is a 6003 professional built for the studio flash bench. Wikipedia calls it a studio-only version that dropped the ambient-light meter and relies on TTL off-the-film flash metering; Rolleigraphy’s description is blunter, “lacking most of the refined multi-system auto-exposure module”, and therefore “even more competitively priced” than the 6003. Japanese Wikipedia reduces it to manual focus and manual exposure. The flash metering keeps the full 6008 pattern set, centre-weighted multi-zone, spot and multi-spot, and the body takes the interchangeable magazines of the 6008 rather than the 6003’s insert back, which for a studio that swaps between 6×6 and 6×4.5 or keeps a Polaroid back loaded is the more useful arrangement.
The rest is the late 6000 System. Every lens carries its own electronically timed leaf shutter and diaphragm; the body times PQ and EL lenses from 30 s to 1/500 s and PQS lenses to 1/1000 s, which Rolleigraphy confirms for “all 6008, both 6003 and 6001”. The motor is slower than a 6003’s, 1.5 frames per second against 2 in Wikipedia’s table. The AF lenses of the 6008 AF mount and focus manually, since they kept an aperture ring; the Hy6’s AFD lenses do not.
Both Wikipedias give 1998 for its introduction and neither gives an end; the English model table prints a question mark, and the only outer bound is the end of the whole 6000 System in 2015. No published review, weight, dimensions or price was found in any source read for this entry, which is in keeping with a body that was sold to studios on price rather than reviewed for enthusiasts. Second-hand it is the least expensive way into 6008 magazines and PQS lenses, with the caveat that on location it is a meterless camera.
This history is AI-written, from the sources listed at the foot of the page. Where the record is silent it says so rather than filling the gap — but no human wrote these sentences.
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