Rolleiflex 6008 integral

Variants & identification

1. No list price was found in the sources read. rolleigraphy.eu says the 6008i was priced competitively against the fully mechanical Hasselblad; Greenspun's figures, a comprehensive Rollei system at about $20,000 in the late 1990s and a 6003 with 80mm f/2.8 at $3,600, are not 6008 integral body prices.
2. No weight or dimensions for the integral were found in the sources read.
3. The 6008 E rests on a single source, English Wikipedia's table.
4. The self-timer is inferred, see derived.
5. rolleigraphy.eu's page shows a 6008i with the Distagon 50mm f/4 FLE and names the hot shoe, PC contact, mechanical cable-release socket, mirror pre-release button, exposure-compensation switch and SE/ME knob among its controls.

• 6008 integral (1995–2002): Built on the SRC 1000 it replaced, quieter and with the motor raised from 2 to 2.5 frames/s (English Wikipedia; a Usenet contemporary); the SRC 1000 electronics upgraded for the Master Control Unit (Japanese Wikipedia). Greenspun gives the two changes a user notices: the meter reads to EV 0 instead of EV 3, and the TTL flash limit at ISO 400 is gone.
• 6008 E (1997–2000): Known here only from English Wikipedia's system table, which lists it 1997–2000 with the integral's metering (multi-zone, spot, multi-spot), ambient and flash metering and 2.5 frames/s. What the E stood for and how it differed from the integral is not stated in any source read; the entry needs confirming against a Rollei document.
• 6008 integral 2 (2002/03–2015): The manual-focus sibling of the 6008 AF of 2002, with the TTL fill-in flash behaviour corrected: on every earlier 6000 body rolleigraphy.eu recommends the flash unit's own auto mode for fill, and says this was amended with the integral 2 and the AF. English Wikipedia's table gives it 2 frames/s where the integral has 2.5, and starts it in 2003 where its text and Japanese Wikipedia say 2002. Sold until the 6000 system ended in 2015 (English Wikipedia).

Specifications

Format

6×6 on 120 or 220 with the 6006 and 6000 magazines; 4.5×6 with the 4560 magazine, which can be set for landscape or portrait (rolleigraphy.eu)

Finder

folding hood, standard; interchangeable with the 45° and 90° prisms and magnifying hood of the 6000 system and with its focusing screens

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 in 1/3-stop steps, 1/1000 with PQS lenses (rolleigraphy.eu; English Wikipedia); B and T · flash sync all speeds, from the leaf shutter; hot shoe and PC contact; TTL flash metering off the film, with the ISO 400 limit of the earlier 6008 removed (Greenspun; rolleigraphy.eu) · self-timer

Film advance

built-in motor, single or continuous at 2.5 frames/s (English Wikipedia; Greenspun); SE/ME knob, the ME position disengaging the transport for multiple exposures (rolleigraphy.eu)

Back

interchangeable magazines with integral dark slide: 6006 and 6000 magazines for 120/220, the 4560 for 4.5×6 in either orientation, the 70 mm and Polaroid magazines (rolleigraphy.eu; English Wikipedia)

Meter

TTL multi-zone, spot and multi-spot (English Wikipedia), reading to EV 0 (Greenspun); shutter priority, aperture priority, program and manual (Japanese Wikipedia), with exposure compensation switch, AE lock and bracketing

Motor drive

built-in — The motor is part of the body; the detachable handgrip carries the release and main controls

Country

Germany

Accessories

Magazines 6006 and 6000 for 120/220, 4560 for 4.5×6 in landscape or portrait, 70 mm bulk-film and Polaroid magazines (rolleigraphy.eu, whose note 5 says Polaroid pack film is no longer made) · Master Control Unit, for which the SRC 1000 electronics were upgraded (Japanese Wikipedia) · Waist-level, 45° and 90° prism and magnifying finders and focusing screens shared across the 6000 system · Detachable handgrip; 9.6 V NiCd pack and charger; car-battery cable; release cables and the ME-1 unit on the 14-pin socket (English Wikipedia; rolleigraphy.eu)

Figures we worked out rather than found: self_timer: true is inferred from Japanese Wikipedia's statement that the 6003 SRC 1000 omits the self-timer the 6008 has, and from the integral being the 6008 line's continuation; no source read names the integral's self-timer directly.

What reviewers say

• Philip Greenspun (blog) — Written across the professional and the integral: the integral of late 1995 is the one to have because its meter reads to EV 0 where the earlier body stops at EV 3, and its motor runs at 2.5 frames/s; the rest, magazines with a single-handle dark slide, a motor that rules out double and blank frames, A settings on every dial and a 3 ms release with the mirror up, is shared. Given one medium-format outfit he would take a 6008 with the Schneider 80, Zeiss 40 and Schneider 300mm f/4.
• James Tocchio, Casual Photophile (October 2017) (blog) — Groups the professional, SRC 1000 and integral as the models with the strongest feature set, modularity and build in the series, and finds nothing seriously wrong with the design: a body 'dense as a stone', top-tier glass, controls under the thumb on the grip, metering that works in any light; the costs are bulk, weight, noise and batteries.

History

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.

Live listings

• Rollei Master Control for Rolleiflex 6008 Integral Control Unit — $449.00 · Cardinal Camera (Used) · likely 6008-integral

Listings updated 2026-11-02. Links go to the shop or marketplace that carries the item.