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Rollei 35S 35mm Film Camera 
Rollei 35S 35mm Film Camera

 
Rollei 35S 35mm Film Camera

Brand: Rollei
Model: 35S
Camera Type: Single Use
Film Type: 35mm
Product ID: EPID65992841
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  Rollei 35 camera
Review created: 01/10/09
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4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

First of all, this is NOT a single use camera, as of caption indicates. Would you pay $155 for a single use camera??? It uses standard 35mm film, any B+W, Color print or slide film you care to load it with. It comes with a good quality 40mm/f3.5 Rollei Tessar lens (not a Sonnar), a bright frame viewfinder and a CdS lightmeter (ASA 25 to 16,000 range). It does not have a rangefinder and uses scale focussing. The lightmeter is designed to use the famous PX625 mercury battery, now banned and not available in the US. My solution is to use the MR-9 Battery adapter (http://www.criscam.com/); it works just fine! To sum this up qwickly, the Rollei 35 is a good, 1970's traditional German workmanship execution of the point and shoot camera concept, easily pocketable but definitely retro. Do not touch it if you must ask "What is 35mm film" or "How many megapixels" ;-)

Possible alternate options? A Leica CL/Minolta CL/Leitz-Minolta CL, slightly larger, with a rangefinder and interchangeable M-mount lens, but much more expensive ($650-900 in excellent condition with a 40mm/f2.0 lens). Again, don't touch it if you must ask "What is a M-mountlens".


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