The Rolleiflex Automat Series - Rollei Rolleiflex F Series Manual

OROLLEIFLEX AUTOIVIAT SERIES
These are the Rolleiflexes with automatic loading feature (originally
introduced in 1937), setting wheels for aperture and shutter speed, but
no exposure meter.
THE ROLLEIFLEX 2.8D has a 3* in. (80 mm.) Planar or Xenotar
/2.8 lens in a Synchro-Compur shutter with exposure value scale. The
focusing magnffier in the fixed hood is adjustable but not interchange-
able. A 35 mm. film counter knob is built into the camera for use with
the 35 mm. attachment. Aperture and shutter speed are coupled to
each other; the coupling can be disengaged. A depth of field scale is
opposite the focusing scale. A double exposure release is fitted into
the transport crank. A fllm speed and type indicator is built in, but no
exposure meter.
THE ROLLEIFLEX 2.8 Chas 3* in. (80 mm.)Planar or Xenotar./2.8
lens in Synchro-Compur shutter without exposure value settings. The
speed range is slightly different from that of the model 2.8D,and so are
the release lock and flash cablellock. Special locking rims prevent in-
advertent changing of the aperture and shutter speed settings.
THE ROLLEIFLEX
2.8 is basically a Rolleiflex Automat 3.5 (see
below) fitted with a 3t in. (80 mm.) Tessar/2.8lens in a Compur-Rapid
(later version: Synchro-Compur) shutter with a highest speed of
1/400 sec. Only the latest models have an adjustable pressure plate (for
35 mm. Rolleikin II) and the XM synchronization. The camera is
handled in the same way as the Rolleiflex Automat 3.5, except for the
self-timer, which is a separate lever as on the Rolleiflex 2.8C.
The Rolleiflex 2.8D and 2.8C accept size III, and Rolleiflex 2.8
size II, bayonet-mounted accessories: filters, lens hood, close-up and
soft focus lenses. The Rolleiflex 2.8D takes the model II Rolleikin
35 mm. attachment; the Rolleiflex 2.8C takes the Rolleikin I attachment.
Other accessories are the plate back for single exposures on plates or
sheet film, flash attachment, Rolleifix tripod head, pistol grip, binocular
extension hood, panorama head, micro attachment, also the Rollei-
meter (an optical rangefinder to be used in conjunction with the frame
finder).
THE ROLLEIFLEX AUTOMAT
3.5, produced between the years
1937 and 1955, underwent a number of changes in design.
The lens is a Tessar 3 in. (75 mm.)/3.5 (Xenar/3.5 on a few models)
in a Synchro-Compur shutter (1-1/500 sec.) with built-in delayed action.
Earlier models have a Compur-Rapid shutter. The finder hood of
earlier models contains an eye-level reflex mirror, but no frame finder.
The finder lens of the first (1937) version has a 28.5 mm. push-on
mount, while the taking lens has a size I bayonet mount. Later on,
both finder and taking lens have size I bayonet mounts.
The latest version of the Rolleiflex Automat 3.5 has a Synchro-Compur
shutter with exposure value scale, coupled aperture and shutter speed
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