How to mount Rollei and Exakta 66 lenses on Olympus 4/3.

[Attila]

Any idea ?

[luisalegria]

Isn't the Exakta 66 a Pentacon 6 mount ?

Therefore you only need P6-M42, and then M42-4/3

[Attila]

I need to check it out I thought same, in this case I have no problem. If not same need to figure out how.

[LucisPictor]

Bellows? That might work.

[Attila]

I found adapter for Canon (Rollei), but not found for Olympus. If anybody see it please inform me. Price should under 100 USD.

[Attila]

I got this lens what you can see in first post. It is not P6 compatible, it has larger diameter.

[luisalegria]

Ah, thats the old Exakta 66, the new ones were P6.

I'm guessing there might have been an adapter to some other medium-format system made back in the 1950's-early 1960's. People like to keep good lenses and change cameras. It is probably rare, if it exists.

An alternative is to make one. It doesn't look that hard. It looks like there are very large flanges on this thing, so its probably easy to mount it on a wooden board with brass or steel strips screwed in to hold the flanges. On the other side a 35mm lens mount can be screwed in to the board, what that is depends on what you can get thats suitable.

[luisalegria]

Lens mount conversion to M42 for Rollei -

http://www.bigeye.url.tw/big5/d_ro200_4_2.htm

In Chinese unfortunately.

[Attila]

Thank you for good ideas!

[Orio]

That is a seriously beautiful piece of equipment.
Even if it didn't have photographic value (but it does), it would still earn a prize for industrial design.

[Attila]

I have lens only, I never seen any copy from this cam locally.It was short time in production.

[rick_oleson]

There were 3 totally different 6x6 Exaktas: the prewar "Square Exakta", the 1954 Exakta 66 in your photo, and the late-70s Exakta 66 which was actually a rebadged Pentacon Six with Schneider lenses.

To use the excellent lenses from the last series, all you need is a Pentacon Six adapter. The 1954 model is more of a problem.

Besides the lens mount being different, you will have a hard time finding many lenses other than the standard 80/2.8 Tessar in that mount to use on your custom made adapter.... and the 80/2.8 Tessar was not an especially good lens even with the 6x6 negative going for it. On the tiny frame of the Olympus digital, I'm afraid it might be something of a stinker.

[kds315*]

Adaptor to M42 - M42 to Olympus 4/3

should work pretty neatly; I've done similar quite often...

[Attila]

Can you send me a link where can I purchase a Rollei to M42 adapter ?

[peterqd]

Will VGR's universal adapter for 4/3 do the job? I guess it depends on the diameter of the bayonet.

[Attila]

I thought too , he reported me adapter lost in post so I need to wait