Rolleigon 150mm f/4 (6000)
Rollei · Rollei 6000 · 1984
single source, unconfirmedAlso known as: Rolleigon 150mm f/4 HFT · Rollei Rolleigon 150mm f4 · Rolleigon HFT 4/150 · Rolleiflex 6006 150mm Rolleigon · Rollei 6000 Rolleigon 150mm · Rolleigon 150mm F4 SLX · ローライゴン 150mm F4 HFT · ローライ ローライゴン 150mm F4 · ローライフレックス 6006 ローライゴン 150mm
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rolleigon 150 mm f/4 HFT, economy line, original-type electronics | Rollei 6000 | 1984 | — | Not published by any source consulted |
- Construction. 5 elements in 4 groups in Wikipedia's list and Japanese Wikipedia (4群5枚); rolleigraphy.eu gives 5 elements and leaves the group count blank for the whole Rolleigon table. All agree it is not the Zeiss Sonnar's 5 elements in 3 groups, so it is a design of its own and not a rebadged Sonnar.
- Maker. 'Made by Tokina' rests on rolleigraphy.eu alone; Wikipedia says only that the Rolleigons were a less-costly line, and Japanese Wikipedia files them under Rollei's own brand without naming a maker. The country of manufacture follows that one source and is flagged.
- Date. 1984 is the year of the 6006, with which Wikipedia says the Rolleigon line was released, citing Rollei's 1985 brochure for the 6006/6002; rolleigraphy.eu says 'marketed at the time of the 6006'. The 1984 US lens sheet for the 6006/SLX lists only the seven Zeiss designs and the Schneider PCS and Variogon, so the Rolleigons came after it. No end date is published.
- Size and weight: 82.5 mm across, 99 mm long and 760 g are Wikipedia's figures, the only source to give them; closest focus 1.4 m in all three sources. Rollei's 1993 and 2003 brochures do not list the Rolleigons at all. Blades and price are not given by any source consulted.
How to tell them apart
- Rollei's own-brand economy telephoto for the 6006 era: Rolleigon engraving, 67 mm thread, no generation marking, 760 g (rolleigraphy.eu; Wikipedia)
- Fits the SLX, 6006 and 6002 fully, the 6008, 6003 and 6001 in shutter-priority and manual exposure only, and not the Hy6 (Wikipedia compatibility table)
- Its stablemates are the Rolleigon 50 mm f/4 and the Rolleigon 80 mm f/2.8 that was sold as a set with the 6002 (Japanese Wikipedia)
Rolleigon 150 mm f/4 HFT, economy line, original-type electronics:
- Engraved Rolleigon HFT 4/150: Rollei's own name, not Sonnar, Tele-Xenar or Carl Zeiss (rolleigraphy.eu)
- No PQ, EL or PQS marking; the Rolleigons share the original SLX lenses' electronics and support manual and shutter-priority exposure only (rolleigraphy.eu; Wikipedia)
- A 67 mm filter thread where the Sonnar 150 has a Bayonet VI; rolleigraphy.eu lists it as E67 with a 'mount adaptor Bay VI to E67' (Wikipedia; Japanese Wikipedia; rolleigraphy.eu)
- Lighter and shorter than the Sonnar: 760 g and 82.5 × 99 mm against 890 g and 81.5 × 102 mm (Wikipedia)
- Rolleigon 150 mm f/4 HFT, economy line, original-type electronics: The only version. Rolleigraphy.eu heads its Rolleigon table 'Made by Tokina' and gives the line's purpose: a less costly alternative 'marketed at the time of the 6006' with the same technical specifications as the original SLX lenses, 'best used with an SLX' because on later bodies the lens limits the camera's functions. Rolleigraphy.eu's particulars: 'standard telephoto lens for portraits, etc.'
Specifications
- Formula
- 5 elements in 4 groups (Wikipedia; Japanese Wikipedia 4群5枚); rolleigraphy.eu gives 5 elements and no group count. Not the Sonnar's 5/3
- Construction
- 5 elements / 4 groups
- Aperture range
- f/4–f/32
- Shutter
- Rollei direct-drive electronic leaf shutter in the lens, 30 s–1/500 s and B, timed and powered by the body through ten gold-plated contacts
- Min. focus
- 1.4 m
- Dimensions
- 82.5 × 99 mm
- Weight
- 760 g
- Filter
- 67 mm
- Years manufactured
- 1984
- Country
- Japan
- Coating
- HFT multicoating
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History
The Rolleigon 150 mm f/4 is Rollei’s own-brand economy telephoto of the 6006 era. When the 6006 arrived in 1984, Rollei added a cheaper line of three lenses under the Rolleigon name, a 50 mm f/4, an 80 mm f/2.8 and this 150 mm f/4, with the same electronics and the same functions as the original SLX lenses: the electronic leaf shutter and diaphragm driven through the ten contacts, 30 s to 1/500 s, HFT coating, but screw-in filters instead of the Bayonet VI and, in this case, a design of Rollei’s own rather than the Zeiss Sonnar. Rolleigraphy.eu, the one source to name a maker, heads its Rolleigon table ‘Made by Tokina’. The lens has five elements in four groups where the Sonnar has five in three, focuses to the same 1.4 m, and is a little lighter and shorter at 760 g and 82.5 by 99 mm; it takes 67 mm filters, rolleigraphy.eu adding a ‘mount adaptor Bay VI to E67’.
It belongs with the SLX, 6006 and 6002. Like the original lenses it supports only manual and shutter-priority exposure, so rolleigraphy.eu judges the Rolleigons ‘best used with an SLX’: they mount on the 6008, 6003 and 6001 but take their aperture-priority and program modes away, and they do not work on the Hy6. Rollei’s 1993 and 2003 lens brochures no longer list them. There is one version and no end date; the 1984 US lens sheet, which precedes the line, shows the seven Zeiss designs alone.
Nobody has reviewed it, and the record of its rendering is empty: the forum comparisons of the 6008 years are between the Sonnar and the Schneider Tele-Xenar, not this lens. For a buyer it is the cheap 150 for an SLX or 6006, to be tested on a body for a working shutter and diaphragm like every lens of the system, and not to be confused with the Sonnar it undercut, which carries a Bayonet VI and 130 g more.
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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