Push fit filters for 1930s rolleiflex

[PaulWA]

Hi all, I've got a rolleiflex old standard with a pair of 75mm lenses, a 3.1 viewing lens and a 3.5 tessar taking lens.

I've taken my first test roll of tmax 400 using an old Red brown filter, and results are excellent - this lens is sharp as a tack, and shutter speeds of up to 1/500th of a second mean it's even possible to use wide open. I'll not mention the difficulties I had mounting the 120 film onto a plastic patterson reel, chewing it up and leaving me with only 6 usable shots... But practice makes perfect

Anywho, it struck me that I would love to focus closer. There are matched sets of 28.5mm push on filters on ebay uk (zeiss proxar mostly, some kodisks). However, I don't know if these compensate for parralax or not. The newer bay filters can (sets of three filters or two with built in compensation) but I can't find any information on the older push fits.

If I bought a matched set made by rolleiflex (complete with serial numbers to authenticate) can I expect them to be corrected, or will I need to compensate for parralax myself through guesswork? I don't want ultra close, but a proxar 1 and proxar 2 would be nice for ektar flower shots.

Thanks for any advice! I'm hoping to send said camera for a service this year too, as the time mode sometimes doesn't shut on second push, but for a camera made in the mid-late 30s it's an exceptionally good shooter!

 

[Fixcinater]

You could also look for a Minolta or Mamiya or Accura branded parallax compensator which raises and lowers the camera an appropriate amount. For tripod use only, so maybe not as flexible as the glass filters.

 

[Andy38]

Hello,

These push on Rollei accessories exist.
You need 2 Proxar's and one Rolleipar.
But they are very hard to find now...

One Rolleipar has to be "pushed on" Proxar, for the viewing lens, the other Proxar is of course for taking lens.

 

[PaulWA]

View attachment 151902 Hello,

These push on Rollei accessories exist.
You need 2 Proxar's and one Rolleipar.
But they are very hard to find now...

One Rolleipar has to be "pushed on" Proxar, for the viewing lens, the other Proxar is of course for taking lens.

Wow, that's cool. I need to keep my eyes peeled on ebay! For now, I've got a set of proxar lenses en route and will get a second for the viewing lens when I can. Until then, it's the tripod and switching back and forth, and I'll guess parralax. Thanks!

 

[Sirius Glass]

For the Mamiya TLRs [C2, C3, C330, ...] there was the Paramender [Dead Link Removed which raised the camera on a tripod the exact amount to correct for parallax. I do not know of a similar device for Rolleis.

 

[PaulWA]

Well, as chance would have it, I have a pair of rolleipar 1 push on filters on their way. However, the only close up filters I have are zeiss ones that are not rollei branded so I'm not sure they are compatible with the rolleipar.

So I'm keeping my eyes peeled for a pair of rollei proxar 1s. I can probably sell one of the rolleipars as they're both rolleipar 1's. I also have a duto filter on the way, which is cool.