{"id":863,"date":"2021-05-29T09:46:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T16:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/?p=863"},"modified":"2021-05-29T09:46:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T16:46:33","slug":"rolleiflex-6000-a-passionate-review-by-volker-moth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/?p=863","title":{"rendered":"Rolleiflex 6000 &#8211; A Passionate Review &#8211; By Volker Muth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve met Volker in Germany once during Photokina and he&#8217;s a nice guy.&nbsp; It&#8217;s great to see his article on the Rolleiflex 6000 system which is very detailed, but omits a few things about lenses he hasn&#8217;t used.&nbsp; &nbsp; The 90mm APO macro lens by Schneider, the 180\/2.8 Schneider, and the 60mm Schneider Curtagon are all missing from his report and personally I think these lenses are some of the jewels of that system.&nbsp; If he liked the 150mm Sonnar for portraits then he&#8217;d absolutely love the 180\/2.8 Schneider.&nbsp; &nbsp;He&#8217;s using an older version of the 6008 which has red led display, but the 6008 Int2 and 6008AF both have LCD displays with more information and both came fitted with a better focusing screen, the High D.&nbsp; He doesn&#8217;t detail much about macro work, but the Rolleiflex system has a huge number of macro accessories &#8211; perhaps more than any other medium format system.&nbsp; &nbsp; Still it&#8217;s a great overview of the camera from a working pro. You should read it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Owning 35mm, medium format and 5&#215;4 inch monorail cameras, the Rolleiflex 6000 system is, for me, something of an ideal compromise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.35mmc.com\/11\/05\/2021\/rolleiflex-6000-a-passionate-review\/\">Rolleiflex 6000 &#8211; A Passionate Review &#8211; By Volker Moth<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.35mmc.com\/11\/05\/2021\/rolleiflex-6000-a-passionate-review\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historic.camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/30947083314_45f755ce68_o-1024x675-1.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.35mmc.com\/11\/05\/2021\/rolleiflex-6000-a-passionate-review\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historic.camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/12032021-Rolleiflex-Review-gear_DSC1395-1.jpg?w=640\" 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