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Rolleiflex T is a series of medium format film TLR cameras manufactured by Franke & Heidecke, Braunschweig, Germany, and produced between 1958-76. The "T" designation does not come from the famous lenses Tessar, but simply from the first name of its creator: Théodore Uhl.

See also the article Rolleiflex.

The Rolleiflex T was originally designed, to fit between the budget Rolleicord and the Rolleiflex F models. It should have been a low cost camera, just less sophisticated than Rolleiflex F models.

Features in all models:

  • Waist level viewfinder is interchangeable
  • There is provision for built-in dual-range lightmeter
  • Film transportation: winding lever, film marker in film chamber, exposure counter for exposures 1-12. Blank film pressure plate.
  • Taking lens: Carl Zeiss Oberkochen Tessar 3.5/75mm; For eastern Europa Carl Zeiz Oberkochen Opton Te 3.4/75mm
  • Finder lens: Carl Zeiss Heidosmat 2.8/75mm, Bayonet 1
  • Both Bayonet 1 filter

Rolleiflex T Models[]

Model K8 T1[]

  • Produced between 1958- 61 with quantity 56.000 units
  • Serials: T2.100.00 - T2.155.999
  • Gray leather front covering
  • Film: 120 roll for 12 exp. 6x6cm and 35mm with adapter Rolleikin.
  • Shutter: Synchro-Compur MXV, 1-1/500 +B, M and X-sync, self timer

Model K8 T24[]

  • Special order, only prepared for exposure metering
  • Produced in 1961, only 250 units
  • Serials: T2.156.000 - T2.156.249
  • Gray leather front covering
  • Film: 120/220 roll, 12 or 24 exposures 6x6cm

Model K8 T2[]

  • Produced between 1961-66, with quantity 43.000 units
  • Serials: T2.157.000 - T2.199.999
  • Black leather front covering
  • Film: 120 roll for 12 exp. 6x6cm, also 16 exp. 4.5x6cm or 4x4cm (from # 2.151.000), and 35mm with adapter Rolleikin.
  • Shutter: Synchro-Compur MXV, 1-1/500 +B, M and X-sync, self timer.

Model K8 T3[]

  • Produced between 1966 - 76, with quantity 28.000 units
  • Serials: T2.200.000 - T2.320.449
  • Black leather front covering
  • Film:120 roll for 12 exp. 6x6cm, also 16 exp. 4.5x6cm or 4x4cm and 35mm with adapter Rolleikin
  • Shutter: Synchro-Compur VX shutter with speeds 1-1/500 +B, X-sync, self timer
  • 2300 units equipped with "Xenar" lenses have been assigned to military market (2000 of them have been sold in military overstock in 1987)



T3 2

Rolleiflex T 3

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