Distagon 60mm f/3.5 (SL66)

Carl Zeiss · Rollei SL66 · 1984

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Also known as: Distagon 60mm f/3.5 · Distagon 60mm F3.5 · Distagon HFT 3.5/60 · Carl Zeiss Distagon 60mm SL66 · Rollei HFT Distagon 60mm · Rolleiflex SL66 Distagon 60mm · Rollei SL66 60mm Distagon · ディスタゴン 60mm F3.5 SL66 · ディスタゴン 60mm ローライ SL66 · ローライ SL66 ディスタゴン 60mm

Variants & identification

Variant	Mount	Years	Serial ranges	Production
Distagon HFT 3.5/60, open-aperture-metering mount (1984–93)	Rollei SL66	1984–1993	—	—

Dates: rolleigraphy.eu, 10/1984–1993, from Prochnow's Rollei Report 2.
Elements and groups: 7 groups/7 elements, rolleigraphy.eu. The lens is absent from Wikipedia's SL66 table, drawn from the May 1983 Rollei lens sheet, which predates it, and from Japanese Wikipedia's SL66 list; camera-wiki lists '60mm Distagon f/3.5' without a count. The same 7/7 is published for the Hasselblad CF Distagon 60mm f/3.5 and the Rollei 6000 Distagon 60, which weighs 770 g with its shutter and helicoid.
Rollei built HFT lenses under licence from Zeiss from 1974 (rolleigraphy.eu); whether the SL66 60 was built in Oberkochen or Braunschweig is not stated by any source read.

How to tell them apart (expand)

Engraved Distagon 3,5/60 with HFT; the SL66 bayonet behind it with no shutter or focusing ring, which separates it from the Hasselblad CF 60 (Prontor shutter, Bay 60) and the shuttered Rollei 6000 Distagon 60
67° diagonal (rolleigraphy.eu)

Distagon HFT 3.5/60, open-aperture-metering mount (1984–93):

Made only in the open-aperture-metering mount of the SL66E/X/SE, with the coupling at the bayonet; black aperture ring, as on every SL66 lens of the 1980s (rolleigraphy.eu)
Bay VI front; no helicoid and no shutter, the SL66 bayonet at the rear (rolleigraphy.eu)
Fully automatic diaphragm (rolleigraphy.eu's aperture class 'A')

Distagon HFT 3.5/60, open-aperture-metering mount (1984–93): One version, October 1984 to 1993 (rolleigraphy.eu). rolleigraphy.eu describes it as a compact moderate wide angle and an alternative standard lens. No weight, length, closest focus or minimum aperture has been found for the SL66 version.

Specifications

Formula: Distagon (retrofocus) — 7 elements in 7 groups, the count published for the Hasselblad CF Distagon 60mm f/3.5 of 1975 and the Rollei 6000 Distagon 60
Construction: 7 elements / 7 groups
Aperture range: f/3.5
Filter: Bayonet VI (rolleigraphy.eu)
Years manufactured: 1984–1993
Country: West Germany
Coating: HFT multicoating

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History

The Distagon 60mm f/3.5 came to the Rolleiflex SL66 late, in October 1984, two years into the SL66E era, and was made only in the open-aperture-metering mount of the E, X and SE bodies (rolleigraphy.eu, from Prochnow’s Rollei Report 2). It is the moderate wide angle of the system, 67° across the diagonal, and rolleigraphy.eu calls it an alternative standard lens, the role the Distagon 60 also played on the Hasselblad, where Zeiss introduced the f/3.5 version in 1975. Seven elements in seven groups is the count rolleigraphy.eu gives, the same as the Hasselblad and Rollei 6000 lenses, and as with every SL66 lens the barrel has no shutter and no helicoid: the body’s bellows focus it and its focal-plane shutter times it. Filters and the hood go on a Bay VI front.

It is the least documented of the SL66 Distagons. It appeared after the May 1983 Rollei lens sheet from which Wikipedia’s SL66 table is drawn, is missing from Japanese Wikipedia’s SL66 list, and camera-wiki names it without specifications, so rolleigraphy.eu is the only source for its element count and its dates, and no weight, length, closest focus or minimum aperture has been found for the SL66 version; the Rollei 6000 Distagon 60, which carries a shutter and a focusing mount, is published at 770 g. On the original SL66 it mounts as an ordinary stop-down lens. rolleigraphy.eu ends its run in 1993, a year after the last bodies.

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