Does the Rollei SL66e take the regular SL66 lenses?

[Summicron]

Or does the SL66e need different lenses that have electrical contacts?

 

[k.hendrik]

yes.
no.
You can 'glue' or ducktape any curved piece of glass(i.e.lens) in front of a Sl66(s)e.
https://www.sl66.com/

 

[ic-racer]

I use the 6000 series, but I always wondered how aperture information gets transmitted to the SL66E body. Is there a lever or something?

 

[itsdoable]

Mechanical meter prong like most cameras of that era.

https://www.photrio.com/forum/threads/sl66-e-ring.80882/

https://www.sl66.com/pg/e-ring-instructions.shtml

 

[ic-racer]

Ok, so SL66E does need different lenses. The 6000 series also had two different lenses for open and stop down metering and I'm still in the process of switching over.

 

[itsdoable]

Not quite a different lens. You need to add the e-ring, which was available for all previous lenses (or a simple modification for the shorter focal length lenses). The correct e-ring may take you a while to find though.

Similar to the Nikon A - Ai conversion, where a replacement aperture ring was available for all current lenses at that time.

 

[ic-racer]

Thank you for the clarification.

 

[Summicron]

If you use an unmodified lens on an SL66e or se, can you meter stopped down?

 

[itsdoable]

I've only actually use a SL66 (non-e, non-se). But the instructions indicate that the meter does not turn on until the meter prong in the camera body is moved from it's rest position. Hence a non-e lens would not turn on the meter until it has been modified to contact the meter prong.

The SL66 uses 3 sensors behind the mirror, 2 for metering, and one to compensate for light entering from the viewing screen. When a lens is stopped down, the light entering from the viewing screen may overwhelm the compensation circuit, resulting in inaccurate readings, hence Rollei may have designed the system not to work in stop-down mode.

 

[k.hendrik]

Try these two guys for E-rings.

Mr. Hans Klinkhamer
Commandeur 23
7041 LA `s-Heerenberg
The Netherlands
Telephone +31 314 668755
e-mail: dekamera@hetnet.nl
Particulars: Visitors by appointment only, please.
Hans is servicing and repairing all Rollei cameras (including SL 66 line, 2000F, 3001 and 3003), lenses and slide projectors, but not compact cameras, electronic flash units and the electronics of the SLX and 6000-series. He does accept SLX and 6000-series cameras for repair but if the problem turns out to be electronic rather than mechanical he will have to send them out.
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[Grim Tuesday]

So wait, does this series of cameras have TTL metering on them with a waist level fimder? Is there any other medium format camera that offers that? I kinda really want one now...

 

[john_s]

If you use an unmodified lens on an SL66e or se, can you meter stopped down?

You can't meter stopped down because the E-ring has to move the body's meter prong a little to get the meter to start. For lenses with short bodies, if you can't get an E-ring you can glue a little piece of anything onto the aperture ring in the right place and that will enable the meter to work as intended. I can find a link here at apug if you're interested in doing this.

For longer lenses, the appropriate E-ring is longer (because the aperture ring is further from the lens mount) and is probably harder to source.

 

[john_s]

So wait, does this series of cameras have TTL metering on them with a waist level finder? ...

Yes, the SL66E and the SL66SE have TTL metering as long as the lens has an E-ring or something functionally equivalent.