Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:11 PM 12/17/97 -0500, Steve Hickel wrote: > My Rollei 35 S is not a Point & Shoot by today's standard. >It has a match the needle exposure meter. Everything is manual operation. >It does have avery sharp sharp Rollei (Carl Zeiss) 40mm f2.5 Sonnar HFT lens. > >Maximum shutter speed 1/500. Since it has a leaf shutter, you get flash >sync at all speeds. Great for daytime fill flash. <<SNIP>> >Rollei still makes the camera as a $2000.00 collector's item in Gold with >Black Lacquer finish. It is called a 35 Royal. The Sonnar used in certain of the Rollei 35's is an f/2.8 lens, not f/2.5. And production ceased several years ago when the supply of size 00 Compur shutters was exhausted. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!