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Planar 80mm f/2.8 (6000)

Carl Zeiss · Rollei 6000 · 1976 · Planar (double Gauss), 7 elements in 5 groups

Also known as: Rollei Planar 80mm f/2.8 HFT · Rollei HFT Planar 80mm F2.8 · Rolleiflex 6000 Planar 80mm f/2.8 · Rolleiflex 6008 Planar 80mm 2.8 · Rolleiflex SLX Planar 80mm f/2.8 HFT · Zeiss Planar 2.8/80 HFT Rollei · Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm f/2.8 PQ Rollei · Planar 80mm f/2.8 PQS Rollei 6008 · Planar 80mm f/2.8 EL Rollei · Planar 1:2.8 f=80mm HFT · ローライ プラナー 80mm F2.8 HFT · ローライフレックス 6008 プラナー 80mm F2.8 · ローライ HFT プラナー 80mm F2.8 PQ · ローライフレックス SLX プラナー 80mm F2.8

Variants & identification

Variant Mount Years Serial ranges Production
Planar 2.8/80 HFT, unmarked SLX-era version (1976–) · Linear-motor leaf shutter, 30 s–1/500 s; shutter-priority AE and manual only Rollei 6000 1976 — —
Planar 2.8/80 HFT PQ (1988–) Rollei 6000 1988 — —
Planar 2.8/80 HFT PQS, 1/1000 s (1990–), order no. 64 002 · Linear-motor leaf shutter with lighter blades, 30 s–1/1000 s Rollei 6000 1990 — —
Planar 2.8/80 HFT EL (economy line), M67 thread, order no. 86 675 Rollei 6000 — — —
  1. Construction, closest focus, size and weight (7 elements in 5 groups, 0.9 m, 81.5 × 63 mm, 590 g, f/2.8–22) are the same in Rollei's own 6000-System lens brochure of May 2003 (PQS and EL rows), in the Wikipedia list drawn from Rollei's 1984, 1985 and 1993 brochures (SLX, PQ, PQS and EL rows), on Rolleigraphy and in Japanese Wikipedia (5群7枚 for both the unmarked and the PQS lens). No source distinguishes the optics of one version from another. Angle of view 52° diagonal, 38° horizontal (Rollei brochure).
  2. Dates: the SLX was shown at photokina 1974 and reached the market in 1976 (English Wikipedia; Rolleigraphy gives 1976, Japanese Wikipedia 1974). The 6008 professional, and with it the PQ lenses, came in 1988; PQS lenses followed in 1990 (Rolleigraphy). No end date is published; Rolleigraphy says the Planar 2.8/80 was eventually replaced by the Rollei-branded AF Apogon 2.8/80 PQS, a 7/5 'Planar type' lens made by DHW/DW Photo, and the manual Apogon 2.8/80 PQS is listed as its equivalent. The EL version's introduction date was not found.
  3. The generation table on Rolleigraphy and the compatibility table on Wikipedia agree on what runs where: unmarked lenses give shutter-priority and manual on every body and no autofocus; PQ and EL add aperture-priority and program on the 6008 and later; PQS needs a 6008, 6003 or 6001 (or a Hy6 in manual focus). The 6008 professional timed 1/1000 s from 1988 although '1000' is not engraved on its dial, only three marks past 500 (Rolleigraphy; Muth).
  4. Number of aperture blades: not given by Rollei's brochure, Rolleigraphy or either Wikipedia. Left empty.
  5. The Schneider Longar 1.4x and AF-Longar converters must not be used with this lens: Rollei's brochure and Rolleigraphy both warn that the Planar's rear element would strike and damage the converter's front element. The 2x HFT teleconverter and the extension tubes, bellows and reversing adapter are compatible; reversed on the bellows the Planar 80 reaches 1.8:1 to 3.5:1 (Rollei brochure).
  6. Prices: a lens price was not found. Greenspun quoted the 6003 kit with the 80/2.8 at $3,600 in 1997, and a 35mmc commenter about $7,000 for a 6008 with the standard 80, a spare back and an insert in 1995; Greenspun paid about $2,000 for a used 6003 with the Zeiss 80/2.8 in 1998.
How to tell them apart (expand)
  • A Planar 1:2.8 f=80mm with a red HFT, 'Made in Germany by Rollei', an aperture ring ending in 'A' and ten gold contacts in a bayonet with no mechanical linkage at all: the shutter and diaphragm inside are moved by linear motors on signals from the body (Rollei brochure; Wikipedia)
  • The type word to the right of the aperture scale tells the versions apart: nothing (SLX era), 'PQ lens', 'PQS lens' or 'EL lens' in white (Rolleigraphy). The EL has a 67 mm filter thread where the others have a Bay VI bayonet
  • Not the Hasselblad Planar C/CF 80mm f/2.8, which carries the Carl Zeiss name, a T* and a mechanical Compur or Prontor shutter with a bayonet-60 filter; not the SL66 Planar 80, which has no shutter and a different bayonet; not the Rolleiflex TLR's fixed Planar; and not the Rollei Planar 80mm f/2.8 HFT in Leica thread of 2003, a five-element lens for the 35RF (Shige's hobby)
  • A 2.8/80 PQS, AF or AFD lens engraved Apogon is Rollei's later own-brand successor, not a Planar (Rolleigraphy)

Planar 2.8/80 HFT, unmarked SLX-era version (1976–):

  • No PQ, PQS or EL marking to the right of the aperture numbers: Stutterheim calls these 'original non-PQ' lenses and notes that the trade often sells them simply as 'HFT', which is unhelpful because every later version carries HFT too
  • Engraved Planar 1:2.8 f=80mm with a red HFT and 'Made in Germany by Rollei': the Zeiss-designed lenses Rollei built under its Voigtländer licence carry the lens name but not the Carl Zeiss name (Rolleigraphy)
  • Rollei Bay VI filter bayonet; aperture ring with an 'A' position for shutter-priority automation

Planar 2.8/80 HFT PQ (1988–):

  • 'PQ lens' engraved or printed to the right of the aperture numbers (Rolleigraphy)
  • Bay VI filter bayonet, as the SLX-era lens; adds aperture-priority and program automation on the 6008 and later bodies

Planar 2.8/80 HFT PQS, 1/1000 s (1990–), order no. 64 002:

  • 'PQS lens' engraved or printed to the right of the aperture numbers (Rolleigraphy)
  • Rollei catalogue number 64 002 (Rollei 6000-System lens brochure, May 2003; Rolleigraphy)
  • Will not run on an SLX, 6006 or 6002: the second-generation linear motors draw more current than those bodies can supply (Rolleigraphy)

Planar 2.8/80 HFT EL (economy line), M67 thread, order no. 86 675:

  • 'EL lens' printed in white to the right of the aperture numbers (Rolleigraphy)
  • M67 × 0.75 filter thread inside the front with a Bay VI bayonet outside for the hood, instead of the Bay VI filter mount of the other versions (Rollei brochure, 2003)
  • Catalogue number 86 675; a commenter on 35mmc reports Zeiss glass assembled by Rollei, and Muth that the EL lenses lack the external aperture window

Specifications

Formula
Planar (double Gauss), 7 elements in 5 groups
Construction
7 elements / 5 groups
Aperture range
f/2.8–f/22
Shutter
Electronically timed leaf shutter in the lens, diaphragm and shutter blades driven by two linear motors: 30 s–1/500 s on the unmarked SLX-era, PQ and EL versions; 30 s–1/1000 s on the PQS
Min. focus
0.9 m
Dimensions
81.5 × 63 mm
Weight
590 g
Filter
Rollei Bay VI (EL version: M67 × 0.75 thread inside, Bay VI outside for the hood) (Planar 2.8/80 HFT, unmarked SLX-era version (1976–), Planar 2.8/80 HFT PQ (1988–), Planar 2.8/80 HFT PQS, 1/1000 s (1990–), order no. 64 002) · 67 mm (0.75 mm pitch) (Planar 2.8/80 HFT EL (economy line), M67 thread, order no. 86 675)
Years manufactured
1976
Country
Germany
Coating
Rollei HFT (High Fidelity Transfer) multicoating, red HFT on the front ring

What reviewers say

History

The Planar 2.8/80 HFT is the standard lens of Rollei’s electronic 6×6 SLRs, from the SLX of 1976 to the 6008 integral and 6003 of the 1990s. Optically it is the Zeiss Planar of the Hasselblad 500 series, seven elements in five groups, closest focus 0.9 m, which Rollei built in Braunschweig under the licence that came with its purchase of Voigtländer in 1971; the lens is engraved Planar and “Made in Germany by Rollei” but not Carl Zeiss, and it wears Rollei’s own HFT multicoating. What is new is everything around the glass. Each lens carries its own electronically timed leaf shutter and diaphragm, both moved by linear motors on commands sent through ten gold contacts in the bayonet, so there is no mechanical link to the body at all. The shutter runs from 30 s to 1/500 s in third stops, the aperture ring has an “A” position for automation, and at 590 g and 63 mm long the lens is small for a 6×6 standard.

Four versions share the one optical design. The SLX-era lens carries no type marking, supports only manual exposure and shutter-priority automation, and on a 6008 stops down with an audible click before each exposure. The PQ lens of 1988 added the electronics for aperture-priority and program modes with the 6008 professional; the PQS of 1990 fitted lighter shutter blades for 1/1000 s, which draws more current than an SLX, 6006 or 6002 can supply; and the EL is the PQ lens sold cheaper with an M67 filter thread instead of the Bay VI bayonet. Rollei’s 2003 brochure lists the PQS (catalogue 64 002) and EL (86 675) side by side, and Stutterheim records that the PQ version was eventually renamed EL to widen the price gap. The lens was never made in autofocus form: the 6008 AF of 2002 and the Hy6 took the Schneider Xenotar 2.8/80 instead, and Rollei’s later own-brand Apogon 2.8/80 PQS, a 7/5 “Planar type”, finally replaced it.

In use it is the lens most 6000-series bodies were sold with, and the one that still comes with most used kits. Volker Muth, who shoots the PQS as his standard lens on a 6008 professional, calls it simply “the versatile standard lens” of a system whose optics he finds excellent, and was surprised by how far an SLX-era copy took him in portrait work; asked to compare it with the Schneider Xenotar 2.8/80 he found the two closer in sharpness, bokeh and rendering than any other Zeiss–Schneider pair in the range. Greenspun, who used the system professionally for four years, preferred his Schneider 80/2.8 and later bought a used 6003 with the Zeiss lens. Two cautions from the sources: the Schneider Longar 1.4x converter cannot be mounted behind this lens, since the Planar’s rear element would strike the converter’s front glass, and a PQS lens will not run on a body older than the 6008.

Buying, the type word to the right of the aperture scale is what matters, because it decides which bodies the lens works fully with: nothing for the SLX era, “PQ lens”, “PQS lens” or “EL lens” in white. Dealers often list the unmarked lens as “HFT”, which every version carries. The leaf shutter and diaphragm are driven entirely by the lens’s own motors, so a lens whose electronics have failed cannot be stopped down or fired by hand, and parts for thirty-year-old linear motors are not guaranteed; a 35mmc reader advises buying only with a warranty long enough to test the shutter hard. No lens list price has been found: Greenspun quoted the 6003 kit with this lens at $3,600 in 1997, and a 6008 kit with the standard 80 ran to about $7,000 in 1995.

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