Rolleiflex model T prism options/adaptions

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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.
 

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

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Shaps said:
Do you make the adapters for sale? I’m interested if you do. Thanks, Norm Shapiro
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I like what you have said about yours. P,ease add me to the list if you ever decide to sell them. Thanks
 

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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.
 

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beemermark said:
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.
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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
 

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