ROLLEIFLEX SL66 QUESTION

milos88 · Mar 22, 2020

Hello all,

I recently bought a long desired Rolleiflex SL66 and it came with a bunch of accessories that I am having trouble identifying.
I am assuming they are for some kind of Macro or Copy work, but I would like to ask for help in identifying them because the camera came with one lens and a box of these that I don't know what they are.
So Here are some of the pictures. Please let me know what they are.
Pictures 2.1 and 2.2 are of the same bayonet mount that was wrapped in a piece of brown paper that had the following numbers written on: 96.841.00.0

Thanks in advance

Milo

John Koehrer · Mar 22, 2020

#7 is a QR tripod mount. Looks like an Arca-Swiss which is pretty common.
A number look like close-up accessories/extension tubes. probably be easier to work out playing
with them than with pictures but someone here is sure to identify them.

john_s · Mar 23, 2020

If you can get a pdf version of Mannheim The Rolleiflex SL66 Way, you can see some diagrams of various setups, including bellows, microscope attachments etc. The file I have is 113,900,000 bytes, so I can't email it!

One of the most useful things that often come with these cameras is missing, the mount for other third party lenses, such as large format lenses or Imagon, although if you wanted one it looks like it could be improvised from some of your bits that have a bayonet fitting like a lens bayonet. I have a bag of bits similar to some of yours, some of which I can't identify either.

R3 looks like part of a bellows lens attachment, with a cable release to allow auto aperture closing for a lens attached to a mount separate from the camera.

As the previous poster says, R7 is a tripod mounting clamp with a universal Arca-type plate. I modified an off-the-shelf plate to fit the camera snugly so I can use a similar clamp. I have found it more stable than the Rollei tripod mount that fits into the wedge arrangement on the camera base. I can post a photo if you're interested.

You will enjoy your SL66! It really is a gem of a camera.

Slixtiesix · Mar 29, 2020

9 and 10 look like parts of a bellow attachment. I can´t help with the rest. It all looks rather exotic to me, definitely not your normal extension tubes. Probably to mount the camera to microscopes, telescopes or to use 3rd party lenses. As John said, the book by L. A. Mannheim is the definitive guide to this camera. I can highly recommend it as well.

Stephen Weston · Mar 29, 2020

You could have a search through:-
https://www.rolleiclub.com
or
http://www.sl66.com
you may find what you need.

k.hendrik · Mar 29, 2020

https://www.rolleiflexclub.nl/phpbb2/
maybe this Dutch ! site ?

k.hendrik · Mar 30, 2020

from my Rollei sl66se book

milos88 · Apr 2, 2020

Thank you all guys! k.hendrik, thank you for uploading this picture, I am sure I can find (almost) everything here!

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