Rolleiflex 6006
Rollei · Rollei 6000 mount · 6×6 or 4.5×6 on 120 or 220, set by the magazine fitted (camera-wiki) · 1984
Also known as: Rolleiflex 6006 · Rollei 6006 · Rolleiflex 6006 Mod 2 · Rolleiflex 6006 Mod. II · Rolleiflex 6006 II · Rolleiflex 6006 Model 2 · Rolleiflex 6006 6x6 · Rolleiflex 6006 Planar 80mm · ローライフレックス 6006 · ローライフレックス6006 · ローライ 6006
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6006, model 1 (1984–89) | Rollei 6000 | 1984–1989 | — | About 7,800 (camera-wiki, whose only bibliography entry is Prochnow's Rollei Report 5, pp. 1216–1217; the figure is not otherwise confirmed) |
| 6006 Mod. II / model 2 (1989–93) | Rollei 6000 | 1989–1993 | — | About 5,800 (camera-wiki, as above) |
- No launch price was found in any source read for this page.
- The production figures of about 7,800 and 5,800 are camera-wiki's; the page's only bibliography entry is Claus Prochnow, Rollei Report 5 (Lindemanns, 2000, pp. 1216–1217), which was not consulted directly.
- rolleigraphy.eu's note on TTL fill-in flash applies to every 6000 body before the integral 2 and the AF, where it was corrected.
- rolleigraphy.eu says body serials became coded from 1982, with index digits in the second and third positions; its coding page was not read for this entry.
How to tell them apart
- An SLX-shaped body with a removable magazine on the back instead of a hinged door and insert; a dark-slide handle on the magazine (camera-wiki; rolleigraphy.eu)
- Two front shutter releases, the speed knob on the right side with the ISO dial in its face, and a hot shoe; 6006 on the nameplate (camera-wiki)
- Model 1 has a mechanical cable-release socket between the two releases and no multiple-exposure switch; model 2 has the switch and no socket (rolleigraphy.eu; camera-wiki)
- A 6008 has a main switch coaxial with the speed dial, spot metering and A/P modes; a 6006 has none of these (English Wikipedia)
6006, model 1 (1984–89):
- Mechanical cable-release socket between the two shutter releases (rolleigraphy.eu)
- No multiple-exposure facility (camera-wiki; rolleigraphy.eu)
6006 Mod. II / model 2 (1989–93):
- Multiple-exposure facility built in (camera-wiki; English Wikipedia)
- No mechanical cable-release socket between the releases (rolleigraphy.eu)
- 6006, model 1 (1984–89): 01/1984–04/1989 (rolleigraphy.eu). 112 × 127 × 138 mm and 1,450 g without lens (camera-wiki; rolleigraphy.eu). The first camera of the 6000 system, and the one for which the Rolleigon economy lenses were introduced.
- 6006 Mod. II / model 2 (1989–93): 04/1989–01/1993 by rolleigraphy.eu; English Wikipedia's table ends it in 1992. Adds the multiple-exposure switch the 6002 had introduced in 1986 and drops the mechanical release socket. rolleigraphy.eu's fourth table column, which reads as the model 2, gives 1,230 g and 112 × 108 × 138 mm, a shallower and lighter body than the model 1; the column is not labelled beyond its dates, so the mapping is by position.
Specifications
- Format
- 6×6 or 4.5×6 on 120 or 220, set by the magazine fitted (camera-wiki)
- Finder
- folding hood, standard; interchangeable with the 45° and 90° prisms and magnifying hood of the SLX, with interchangeable focusing screens (camera-wiki on the SLX; rolleigraphy.eu)
- Shutter
- electronically timed leaf shutter in every lens, shutter and diaphragm driven by linear motors; no shutter in the body (rolleigraphy.eu) · 30 s–1/500, B and T (rolleigraphy.eu); the PQS lenses' 1/1000 is not available, the body not supplying the current · flash sync all speeds, from the leaf shutter; hot shoe, with TTL flash metering by an additional photodiode reading off the film (rolleigraphy.eu)
- Film advance
- built-in motor, single or continuous; 0.7 frames/s by rolleigraphy.eu's table, 1.5 frames/s by English Wikipedia's (see disputed); automatic wind to frame 1 and wind-off
- Back
- interchangeable magazines with an integral dark slide, the feature the SLX lacked (camera-wiki; English Wikipedia): Magazine 6006 as standard, the later Magazine 6000 with the limitation that film speed must be set on the camera because the 6006 does not read it from the magazine, and the 6000 Polaroid magazine (rolleigraphy.eu); 645 and 70 mm bulk-film magazines were also made
- Meter
- TTL centre-weighted, three cells, with stray-light compensation; shutter-priority AE or manual in 1/3-stop steps; TTL flash metering off the film through an additional photodiode (rolleigraphy.eu). rolleigraphy.eu warns that TTL fill-in flash does not behave as expected on bodies before the integral 2 and recommends the flash unit's own auto mode for fill
- Weight
- 1450 g
- Dimensions
- 112 × 127 × 138 (w × d × h), model 1 without lens (camera-wiki; rolleigraphy.eu); 112 × 108 × 138 and 1,230 g for the column rolleigraphy.eu dates as the model 2 mm
- Country
- West Germany
Where sources disagree
- First
- 1984 — camera-wiki; rolleigraphy.eu (01/1984); English Wikipedia's system table
- 1983 — English Wikipedia's text
Better supported: 1984
- Last
- 1993 — camera-wiki; rolleigraphy.eu (01/1993)
- 1992 — English Wikipedia's system table
Better supported: 1993
- Film advance (frame rate)
- 0.7 frames/s — rolleigraphy.eu's comparison table, for the 6006, 6002 and 6006 model 2
- 1.5 frames/s — English Wikipedia's system table, the same figure it gives the SLX
rolleigraphy.eu gives the SLX 1.5 frames/s and the 6006 0.7; English Wikipedia gives both 1.5. Neither cites a Rollei document.
- Weight (grams) (model 2)
- 1,450 g — camera-wiki, for the 6006 without distinguishing models
- 1,230 g — rolleigraphy.eu's fourth column, dated 04/1989–01/1993
The 220 g difference goes with a 19 mm shallower body in the same column, so it may describe a real change in the model 2 rather than an error.
What reviewers say
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History
The Rolleiflex 6006 of 1984 is the SLX with the one thing professionals had asked for: a magazine that comes off in daylight, with its own dark slide, so that film can be changed mid-roll or a Polaroid back put on (camera-wiki; English Wikipedia). Everything else carries over, including the linear-motor leaf shutters in the lenses, the 30 s–1/500 range, the two front releases, the three-cell centre-weighted meter and the 9.6 V pack, and the SLX’s finders and screens still fit. What is new inside is a photodiode reading flash off the film, which gives the 6006 TTL flash metering and a hot shoe that the SLX did not have (rolleigraphy.eu). It was the first camera of what Rollei now called the 6000 system, made in Braunschweig by Rollei, which by now traded as Rollei Fototechnic, the name on the system’s lens literature (rolleigraphy.eu), rather than Rollei-Werke Franke & Heidecke as on the SLX.
The 6006 also brought the Rolleigon economy lenses, so that a kit could be had with a Rolleigon 80mm f/2.8 instead of the Zeiss-designed Planar. What it cannot do is drive the PQS lenses of 1990 at their 1/1000 top speed: that needs the current of a 6008 or 6003, and a PQS lens on a 6006 is limited to the older range.
Two models were made. The model 1 of 1984–89, about 7,800 cameras by camera-wiki’s count, has a mechanical cable-release socket between the two front releases and no multiple-exposure facility. The model 2, or Mod. II, of 1989–93, about 5,800 cameras, takes the multiple-exposure switch from the 6002 of 1986 and gives up the mechanical socket (camera-wiki; rolleigraphy.eu). rolleigraphy.eu’s comparison table also shows the later column as 220 g lighter and 19 mm shallower, which would make the model 2 a reworked body rather than a switch added to the old one, though the table does not say so in words. The 6008 of 1988 had already overtaken both with spot metering and aperture-priority and program modes, and the 6006 ended in January 1993. No independent review of the 6006 itself was found; the owners’ verdicts in Philip Greenspun’s 6008 review concern its lenses, whose diaphragms click loudly when they stop down.
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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