PCS-Rolleigon 75mm f/4.5 (SL66)
Rollei · Rollei SL66 · 1984
Also known as: PCS-Rolleigon 75mm f/4.5 · PCS Rolleigon 75mm F4.5 · PCS-Rolleigon HFT 4.5/75 · Rolleigon 75mm shift · Rollei PCS Rolleigon 75mm SL66 · Rolleiflex SL66 PCS-Rolleigon · Rollei SL66 shift lens 75mm · PCS ローライゴン 75mm F4.5 · ローライゴン 75mm シフト SL66 · ローライ SL66 PCS 75mm
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PCS-Rolleigon HFT 4.5/75 (1984–90) | Rollei SL66 | 1984–1990 | — | — |
- Dates: rolleigraphy.eu, 10/1984–1990, from Prochnow's Rollei Report 2.
- Elements and groups: 9 groups/11 elements in rolleigraphy.eu, Wikipedia's SL66 lens table and Japanese Wikipedia (9群11枚).
- Weight, dimensions and f/32 are Wikipedia's table. Its closest focus reads '0.4 m (16.93 in)'; 16.93 in is 0.43 m, which is the figure used here. Closest focus on an SL66 lens is set by the body's bellows.
- The designer and the place of manufacture are not stated by any source read. camera-wiki files the Rolleigon under 'Rollei (licensed Zeiss designs)', a heading that covers the Rollei-built Planar and Sonnar as well; nothing read says the shift lens is a Zeiss design.
How to tell them apart
- Engraved PCS-Rolleigon 4,5/75 HFT; a shift stage in the barrel; SL66 bayonet with no helicoid or shutter. The Rollei 6000 system's shift lens is a different design, Schneider's PCS Super-Angulon 55mm f/4.5 in 10 elements and 8 groups
- 62° diagonal on the nominal frame, with an image circle extended for shift (rolleigraphy.eu)
PCS-Rolleigon HFT 4.5/75 (1984–90):
- A shift mechanism between bayonet and optics, 161 mm long overall and 103 mm across, 1,313 g (Wikipedia's table, from the Rollei lens sheet)
- Rolleigon name and HFT engraving, not Carl Zeiss (camera-wiki lists it under Rollei)
- No coupling for open-aperture metering, so it meters stopped down on the SL66E and SE (rolleigraphy.eu)
- Bay VIII front for filters and hood, the size the 1968 Distagon 40 also takes (rolleigraphy.eu)
- PCS-Rolleigon HFT 4.5/75 (1984–90): One version, October 1984 to 1990 (rolleigraphy.eu). The only lens of the SL66 system sold under the Rollei name alone, and the only one with lens movements of its own; the body supplies tilt but not shift.
Specifications
- Formula
- Perspective-control shift lens with an extended image circle — 11 elements in 9 groups
- Construction
- 11 elements / 9 groups
- Aperture range
- f/4.5–f/32
- Min. focus
- 0.43 m
- Dimensions
- 103 × 161 mm
- Weight
- 1313 g
- Filter
- Bayonet VIII (rolleigraphy.eu; Wikipedia)
- Years manufactured
- 1984–1990
- Country
- West Germany
- Coating
- HFT multicoating
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History
The PCS-Rolleigon 75mm f/4.5 is the perspective-control lens of the Rolleiflex SL66 system and the one lens in it sold under Rollei’s own name rather than Carl Zeiss’s. Introduced in October 1984 and made until 1990 (rolleigraphy.eu, from Prochnow’s Rollei Report 2), it adds the one movement the body lacks: the SL66’s bellows standard tilts up to 8° but cannot shift, so a shift stage is built into the lens, with an image circle extended beyond the 6×6 frame to cover the displacement. Eleven elements in nine groups give 62° across the diagonal at the centred position, closing to f/32; the whole thing is 161 mm long, 103 mm across and 1,313 g, the heaviest SL66 lens short of the 500 and 1000 (Wikipedia’s table; rolleigraphy.eu). Filters and the hood go on a Bay VIII front, the size of the 1968 Distagon 40. Like the other SL66 lenses it has no shutter and no helicoid.
It has no coupling for open-aperture metering, so on the SL66E and SE it meters stopped down, as a shift lens with an off-centre image generally must (rolleigraphy.eu). Its counterpart in the Rollei 6000 system is a different lens, Schneider’s PCS Super-Angulon 55mm f/4.5, in ten elements and eight groups. Who designed the Rolleigon, and where it was built, is not stated by any source read; camera-wiki lists it under a Rollei heading that also carries the licence-built Planar and Sonnar, which does not by itself make it a Zeiss design.
No review of it has been found. It was a low-volume professional lens in the last six years of the system, and sellers’ titles are the main place it surfaces.
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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