Rolleigon 80mm f/2.8 (6000)
Rollei · Rollei 6000 · 1984 · 6 elements in 5 groups (distinct from the 7/5 Planar)
Also known as: Rollei Rolleigon 80mm f/2.8 HFT · Rolleigon 80mm F2.8 HFT · Rolleigon 2.8/80 HFT · Rolleiflex 6002 Rolleigon 80mm · Rolleiflex 6006 Rolleigon 80mm f/2.8 · Rollei 6000 Rolleigon 80mm 2.8 · Rolleigon 1:2.8 f=80mm · ローライ ローライゴン 80mm F2.8 HFT · ローライフレックス 6002 ローライゴン 80mm F2.8 · ローライゴン 80mm F2.8
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rolleigon 2.8/80 HFT, SLX-generation electronics (1984–) | Rollei 6000 | 1984 | — | — |
- Construction, closest focus, size and weight (6 elements in 5 groups, 0.9 m, 82.5 × 63 mm, 570 g, f/2.8–22, 67 mm filter) are from the Wikipedia list, drawn from Rollei's 1984 'Lenses for 6006/SLX' and 1985 6006/6002 brochures; Japanese Wikipedia gives 5群6枚, 0.9 m and φ67 screw-in; Rolleigraphy gives 6 elements, 52°/38° and E67. The six-element count is what separates it from the seven-element Planar; the Rolleigon is not in Rollei's 2003 brochure.
- Maker: Rolleigraphy heads its Rolleigon table '(Made by Tokina)' and Muth writes the same; neither names a document. Tokina's factories are in Japan; the lens is a Rollei-branded product with Rollei's HFT coating.
- Dates: Wikipedia says the Rolleigons were released with the 6006 (1984); Rolleigraphy that they were 'marketed at the time of the 6006' with the same specifications as the original SLX lenses and are best used on an SLX; Japanese Wikipedia that the 80 was sold as a set with the 6002 of 1986. Discontinuation not recorded; the EL line later took over the economy role (Muth; Wikipedia).
- Blades and list price not found.
How to tell them apart
- Rolleigon, not Planar, on the front ring: Rollei's economy standard lens, with a 67 mm screw thread for filters where the Planar has a Bay VI bayonet (Wikipedia; Rolleigraphy)
- Same bayonet, ten contacts and linear-motor shutter as every 6000 lens; electrically an SLX-generation lens with no PQ, PQS or EL word by the aperture scale
- Not the EL Planar 80, which also takes 67 mm filters but is engraved Planar, has seven elements and carries 'EL lens' in white; not the PCS-Rolleigon 75mm f/4.5 shift lens of the SL66
Rolleigon 2.8/80 HFT, SLX-generation electronics (1984–):
- Engraved Rolleigon 1:2.8 f=80mm HFT with no type word, since the Rolleigons belong to the unmarked SLX generation electrically (Rolleigraphy)
- A 67 mm filter thread instead of the Bay VI bayonet of the Planar; Rolleigraphy describes it as E67 'with mount adaptor Bay VI to E67'
- Six elements, 570 g, 82.5 × 63 mm: lighter and a shade wider than the 7/5 Planar 80 (Wikipedia)
- Rolleigon 2.8/80 HFT, SLX-generation electronics (1984–): The one version. Sold with the 6002 of 1986, the body without interchangeable magazines (Japanese Wikipedia), and released alongside the 6006 of 1984 (Wikipedia). Shutter-priority and manual exposure only: on a 6008 or later body the automatic modes it lacks stay unavailable, and the Hy6 does not take it.
Specifications
- Formula
- 6 elements in 5 groups (distinct from the 7/5 Planar)
- Construction
- 6 elements / 5 groups
- Aperture range
- f/2.8–f/22
- Shutter
- Electronically timed leaf shutter in the lens, linear-motor driven: 30 s–1/500 s; shutter-priority AE and manual only
- Min. focus
- 0.9 m
- Dimensions
- 82.5 × 63 mm
- Weight
- 570 g
- Filter
- 67 mm
- Years manufactured
- 1984
- Country
- Japan
- Coating
- Rollei HFT multicoating
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History
The Rolleigon 2.8/80 was Rollei’s economy standard lens for the 6000 system in the mid-1980s, released alongside the 6006 of 1984 and sold as the kit lens of the 6002 of 1986, the simplified body without interchangeable magazines. It is not a Planar under another name. Rollei’s brochures give it six elements in five groups against the Planar’s seven in five, 570 g against 590, and a 67 mm filter thread where the Planar has the Bay VI bayonet; Stutterheim and Muth both say the Rolleigons were made by Tokina. HFT coating, 0.9 m closest focus and the usual linear-motor leaf shutter to 1/500 s are shared with the Zeiss lens.
Electrically it is an SLX-generation lens. Rolleigraphy’s table puts the Rolleigons with the unmarked original lenses: shutter-priority automation and manual exposure, nothing more, so they do everything an SLX, 6006 or 6002 can do and limit a 6008 to those two modes; the Hy6 does not accept them. Stutterheim’s advice is that they are best used on an SLX. When the PQ lenses arrived with the 6008 in 1988 the economy role passed to the EL line, Zeiss-glass Planars with a 67 mm thread, and the Rolleigon drops out of Rollei’s later catalogues.
No review of the lens has been found; Rolleigraphy’s one-line verdict is “good contrast, excellent sharpness, good image flatness”. It turns up on the used market mostly attached to a 6002 or 6006, and is the cheapest way into the system’s standard focal length. The things to check are those of every 6000 lens, a shutter and diaphragm driven by motors inside the lens with no manual fallback, plus the filter mount: Rolleigraphy describes the front as a Bay VI with an adaptor to a 67 mm thread, so a copy may or may not come with the ring it needs.
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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