Rolleiflex 6008 AF
Rollei · Rollei 6000 mount · 6×6 on 120 or 220 in the 6008 magazines; 6×4.5 with the 4560 magazine · 2002
Also known as: Rolleiflex 6008 AF · Rolleiflex 6008AF · Rollei 6008 AF · Rollei 6008AF · Rolleiflex 6008 AF body · Rolleiflex 6008 AF kit · Rollei 6008 AF 6x6 · 6008 AF Xenotar 80mm · ローライフレックス 6008AF · ローライフレックス 6008 AF · ローライ 6008AF
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6008 AF | Rollei 6000 | 2002–2015 | — | No total is published. Japanese Wikipedia ends production in 2014; the English Wikipedia model table ends it in 2015, the year the whole 6000 System was discontinued. |
- Weight: 1,500 g body, 2,620 g standard outfit, from Japanese Wikipedia; no manufacturer sheet was read.
- Metering patterns, frame rate and magazine type are the English Wikipedia model-table row for the 6008 AF: 'Interchangeable | Ambient, flash | Centre-weighted multi-zone, spot, and multi-spot | Max 2 frames/sec.'
- The AF lens dates (80mm at launch; 180mm and 60–140mm zoom later in 2002; 50mm 2005) were not verified against a dated Rollei catalogue and are carried provisionally.
How to tell them apart
- The only 6000-series body with an AF switch and AF-area selector; a 6008 integral 2 of the same year has the same shell without them
- AF lenses (AF-Xenotar 80/2.8, AF-Tele-Xenar 180/2.8, AF-Variogon 60–140/4.6, AF-Super-Angulon 50/2.8) are the usual companions and still carry an aperture ring, so they also work as manual-focus lenses on the 6008, 6003 and 6001
- Listing trap: sellers write '6008' for the professional, integral, integral 2 and AF alike; only the AF body autofocuses, and only an AF or AFD lens drives it
6008 AF:
- AF on the front of the body beside the model number; the AF/MF selector and the three-zone/spot AF-area selector are the controls a 6008 integral 2 does not have
- Launched with the AF Xenotar HFT 80mm f/2.8 PQS; an AF lens carries a focusing motor coupling in the bayonet and a scale window, but keeps the aperture ring that the later AFD lenses dropped
- 6008 AF: The only model. Japanese Wikipedia gives the body at 1,500 g and the standard outfit at 2,620 g, single and continuous AF plus manual, three AF areas or spot AF, and an electronic focus aid in manual focus. Rolleigraphy's repair note (2019) says the 6008 AF "is difficult to repair" because the electronic boards are no longer available.
Specifications
- Format
- 6×6 on 120 or 220 in the 6008 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 6008 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 and AF-PQS lenses (Wikipedia; rolleigraphy.eu) · flash sync Leaf shutter: all speeds; TTL off-the-film flash metering · self-timer
- Film advance
- Built-in motor, single frame or continuous to a maximum of 2 frames per second (Wikipedia model table)
- Back
- Interchangeable magazines of the 6008 type (Wikipedia model table)
- Meter
- TTL ambient and flash metering; centre-weighted multi-zone, spot (about 1% of the frame) and multi-spot, with aperture-priority, shutter-priority, program and manual exposure (Wikipedia)
- Motor drive
- Compatible — Motor built in; rechargeable NiCd battery pack rated at about 500–600 exposures per charge (Wikipedia)
- Weight
- 1500 g
- Country
- Germany
- Accessories
- 6008-type film magazines for 120 and 220, 6×6 and 6×4.5 · 45° and 90° prism finders, waist-level hood, interchangeable focusing screens · Action grip, rechargeable NiCd battery pack and charger · Scan-pack and digital-back interface
Non-AF System 6000 lenses show an "in focus" confirmation in the finder (rolleigraphy.eu); the AF system offers three focus areas or a spot area (Japanese Wikipedia).
Where sources disagree
- Last
- 2015 — English Wikipedia model table (6008 AF 2002–2015)
- 2014 — Japanese Wikipedia (production ended 2014)
Better supported: 2015
The English table gives 2015 as the end of the 6000 System as a whole; the Japanese date may be the last year bodies were built rather than sold.
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History
The 6008 AF is the 6008 integral 2 with an autofocus module, and Rollei sold it as the first 6×6 reflex that focused itself. Rolleigraphy dates its arrival to February 2002 and quotes the maker’s line that it was “a world first in 6 x 6 cm photography”; Japanese Wikipedia repeats the claim for the leaf-shutter 6×6 class and lists the controls: single and continuous AF, manual focus with an electronic focus aid, and a choice of three focus areas or a spot. A non-AF System 6000 lens mounted on the body still gets an in-focus confirmation. Everything else is the integral 2: the lens-mounted leaf shutters timed by the body from 30 s to 1/500 s, or 1/1000 s with PQS glass, centre-weighted multi-zone, spot and multi-spot TTL metering, TTL off-the-film flash, a built-in motor to 2 frames per second and interchangeable magazines.
The AF lenses came from Schneider-Kreuznach. The AF Xenotar 80mm f/2.8 PQS launched with the body; the AF Tele-Xenar 180mm f/2.8 and the AF-Variogon 60–140mm f/4.6 followed the same year and the AF Super-Angulon 50mm f/2.8 in 2005. All four keep an aperture ring, so they mount and focus manually on the 6008, 6003 and 6001; the AFD lenses that came with the Hy6 in 2007 dropped the ring and work only on that body. The 6008 AF is therefore the last 6000 body that can use every lens generation from PQ onward, and the only one apart from the Hy6 that autofocuses.
Japanese Wikipedia puts the body at 1,500 g and the standard outfit at 2,620 g, and ends production in 2014; the English model table carries it to 2015, when Rollei’s successor companies gave up the 6000 System altogether. The body shares the fate of the late electronic Rolleis: Rolleigraphy noted in 2019 that the 6008 AF is hard to repair because its boards are no longer available, which is the first thing to check before buying one. No published review of the AF body itself was found; the 6008 integral 2, released at the same time, is the same camera without the module for buyers who did not want it.
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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