Meaning of MC at Rolleinar

Mustafa Umut Sarac · Feb 18, 2011

http://www.photohaus.de/index.php?id=62&tx_trproduktgalerie_pi1[cat]=112&tx_trproduktgalerie_pi1[page_nr]=0&cHash=9e4cad66ed

I found two Rolleinar at photohaus costs 49 euros per lens.
One of them MC , one of them lack of this term.

What are these lenses for , 35 mm or MF ? Are they zeiss generic ? Who produced and designed them ? German made ?

Which camera carries them ?

I think this is very good price for Rollei quality !

Thank you ,

Mustafa Umut Sarac

Istanbul

Bruce Osgood · Feb 18, 2011

I can offer an explanation of MC as being Multi Coated. This would suggest to me it is a modern lense as oppposed to "old" lense. They are both Distagon design which is researchable but I don't know enough to tell you anything else.

Mustafa Umut Sarac · Feb 18, 2011

Bruce ,

Thank you , yes of course , it is multi coated term. I couldnt think fast because of price. If I am not wrong these are suspectible for me with being distagon. By the way , I always tried to understand and love distagon but their hasselblad catalog pictures - scene , open air - pissed me off. But interior pictures are better. Grain goes better with bw zeiss shots.

Umut

ath · Feb 18, 2011

I think they are for the 35mm Rollei cameras with QBM Bayonet.
http://www.taunusreiter.de/Cameras/Rollei_QBM_Schneider_dt.html

Chazzy · Feb 18, 2011

I'm thoroughly confused now, because I thought a Rolleinar was a closeup lens for the Rolleiflex TLRs.

Steve Smith · Feb 18, 2011

Mustafa Umut Sarac said:
Are they zeiss generic ? Who produced and designed them ? German made ?

Made by Mamiya I think.

EDIT: Actually, it says so in the link Andreas supplied

Built: 1977-1996
Mamiya, Japan

Steve.

Ian Grant · Feb 18, 2011

Any lens with the Zeiss name on it has Zeiss technicians overseeing quality control and will have been designed in Germany.

Ian

ath · Feb 18, 2011

But is doesn't say Zeiss, it says Rollei. Some Rollei lenses were from Zeiss but not all.

ic-racer · Feb 18, 2011

Those are Japanese lenses.

The f4 Zeiss Tele-Tessar 135mm is probably the poorest 35mm lens I own. I'd not be surprised if those Japanese lenses perform better. (The Zeiss Sonnar 135 f2.8 was the top of the line 135mm lens, but I don't have one.)

I did get a Rolleinar 80-200 zoom attached to an SL35E body recently. That Rolleinar performs fantastic. The Rolleinar 80-200 I have was made by Tokina.

Ian Grant · Feb 19, 2011

ath said:
But is doesn't say Zeiss, it says Rollei. Some Rollei lenses were from Zeiss but not all.

True, but the linked web--page lists them under the page Heading Rollei Zeiss lenses which they aren't with images of X=Zeiss lenses at the top.

Ian

Steve Smith · Feb 19, 2011

ic-racer said:
The Zeiss Sonnar 135 f2.8 was the top of the line 135mm lens, but I don't have one.

I have an f3.5 135mm Zeiss Sonnar which is a nice lens. I have not seen an f2.8 version though.

Steve.

ic-racer · Feb 19, 2011

Steve Smith said:
I have an f3.5 135mm Zeiss Sonnar which is a nice lens. I have not seen an f2.8 version though.

Steve.

You can see the 135/2.8 here below. I have not heard much of the 3.5/135 Sonnar, can you post a picture? (The CZJ lens? Screw mount?)

Eye candy for Zeiss lovers:

http://www.taunusreiter.de/Cameras/Rollei_QBM_Zeiss_dt.html

Steve Smith · Feb 19, 2011

It's one of these:

Dead Link Removed

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_LIwVqsLxggM/TQU0LaYm1YI/AAAAAAAAEQ0/zcSxshLs828/IMGP2915.jpg

Steve.

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