Rolleiflex model T prism options/adaptions

[jodad]

@Individual One did you make any more of these chimney VF attachments in the end?

 

[Individual One]

I've made all the ones that I could ever need, in versions that work with cases and with overhanging viewfinders, but I don't want the bother of qualifying Shapeways as a supplier. I think that their product would be very good but the price would be high and combined with what I suspect would be a small share of a small market I don't think I would make much money at it. I could one day run some off in reinforced nylon and sell them directly via eBay, but my entrepreneurial urge is not very high.

 

[Shaps]

There is the ebay guy, although his version requires removing and replacing the plate on the bottom of the viewfinder to install it on the adapter. Rather than dismantle my finders I printed an adapter in carbon reinforced nylon that is separable to install the viewfinder. It works nicely with a Hasselblad 45 deg.
Bruce
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Do you make the adapters for sale? I’m interested if you do. Thanks, Norm Shapiro

 

[Shaps]

Do you make the adapters for sale? I’m interested if you do. Thanks, Norm Shapiro

I like what you have said about yours. P,ease add me to the list if you ever decide to sell them. Thanks

 

[beemermark]

I always thought that the T and late Rolleicords took the same prism as the F models. Was I wrong. The prisms are cheap enough.

 

[Individual One]

I always thought that the T and late Rolleicords took the same prism as the F models. Was I wrong. The prisms are cheap enough.

I suspect that you are correct about those cameras taking the same prisms (I only have a T myself). As for being cheap enough, well that's subjective. My motivation for printing an adapter for myself was to enable using prism(s) that I already own from other camera systems: Hasselblad and Kiev. A sunk cost. The cost to print an adapter comes to about $1 plus about one minute of setup time, and the design process has considerable hobby value to me.
Bruce

 

[choiliefan]

I posted this to another thread but seems applicable here as well:

This 3d printable adapter looks like it may work with the Hasselblad prism:

Its free on thingiverse.

Prismfinder adapter for Rolleiflex T and Rolleicord Vb by J0hn_the_savage

Prismfinder adapter for Rolleiflex T and Rolleicord Vb

www.thingiverse.com

 

[Individual One]

I posted this to another thread but seems applicable here as well:

This 3d printable adapter looks like it may work with the Hasselblad prism:
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Its free on thingiverse.

Prismfinder adapter for Rolleiflex T and Rolleicord Vb by J0hn_the_savage

Prismfinder adapter for Rolleiflex T and Rolleicord Vb

www.thingiverse.com

It might work, but I would have serious misgivings about trusting that thin crossbar with the tab to retain a prism.
Bruce