Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Erich Champion wrote: > As a pocket camera, I really enjoy my Rollei 35. It's a mid '70s scal= e > focusing rangefinder camera with a Zeiss f3.5 40mm lens. The camera h= as given > me wonderful pictures, and is quite robust. I don't fear taking it anywhere. > These cameras routinely come up for sale on eBay and sell for under $= 200. They > also turn up in used camera stores, but are usually priced higher tha= n they > should be. The Rollei 35 S with unit focusing 2.8/40 mm Sonnar is even better - Le= ica quality. But these are no point and shoot cameras as they are manual fo= cus and manual exposure cameras. The Rollei 35 SE with exposure metering LE= Ds in finder should be easier but I have no experience of it. And then the= re is the most recent version the Rollei 35 Classic but they can be somewh= at expensive. I think I=B4ll never sell my 35 S. Raimo