Rollei

Rolleiflex medium format camera.

Rollei is a German manufacturer of optical goods founded in 1920 by Paul Franke and Reinhold Heidecke in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, and maker of the Rolleiflex and Rolleicord series of cameras. Rollei's cameras use Carl Zeiss and Schneider Kreuznach optics.

modern compact Rollei digital camera.

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Classic examples - medium format

Rolleiflex 3.5F TLR with 75 mm F3.5 Planar - as used by David Bailey and Diane Arbus.
Rolleiflex SL66 and SL66E SLR with rise and fall lens plane and exceptional close-up abilities - as used by Brett Weston.
Rolleicord Vb - A medium format twin-lens reflex camera designed for non-professional users, like the rest of the Rolleicord line.
Rolleiflex 2.8GX as used by Helmut Newton

Rollei 35 compact original viewfinder (Germany) with 40 mm F3.5 Carl Zeiss Tessar.
Rollei 35S compact 35 mm film camera with a 40 mm f2.8 Sonnar lens.
Rolleiflex SL2000 (or 3003) SLR - a 35 mm SLR with interchangeable magazines - not the first, but now unique for a modern 35 mm SLR.
Rolleiflex SL35 range - 35 mm SLRs produced from the 1970s though to the late 1980s, using Carl Zeiss optics. Other lenses, like the Schneider, and the Rolleinar (manufactured for Rollei mainly by Mamiya) were also available. German-made models are still desirable, but the ill-fated Singapore models had sub-standard electronics which made them chronically unreliable.^{[[Citing sources citation needed]]}

Some accessories manufactured for Rollei TLRs:

Rolleinar: A set of close-up lenses, in three magnifications (Rolleinar 1, Rolleinar 2, and Rolleinar 3). A pair of Rolleinar lenses are placed on both the viewing and taking lenses.
Rolleifix: Instead of screwing the camera body to a tripod, this tripod head clamps down on the TLR.
Rolleipol: Rollei's polarizing filter.
Rolleikin: Allows the use of 35 mm film.
Rollei panorama head: Attaches the camera to a tripod, and enables the photographer to take a series of aligned pictures to create a panoramic photo in an arc up to 360°.
Rollei Pistol Grip