Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT - Rollei 35
From: "Jeffery L. Smith" <jsmith45@bellsouth.net>
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 11:31:51 -0600
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That's the site!  Like you, I have not warmed up to the Rollei 35, probably 
because I'm not big on estimating distances. I would rather carry a 
slightly larger and heavier camera like a Contax T and have dead sharp focus.

Jeffery

At 08:09 AM 11/16/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Jeffery,
>
>You might have been thinking of this site http://www.rolleicamera.com/ .
>
>I bought a 35SE a few months back and must confess that I have not warmed 
>to it all that well.  It's not that it's a bad camera...it's that the M 
>camera is, well, so good.  My travel camera continues to be a battered M3 
>with a 50.28 collapsible Elmar with a Voigtlander VC meter on top...
>
>At 02:14 AM 11/16/2002, you wrote:
>>Henry,
>>
>>This won't be much help, but try Google.com.  I had the same questions 6 
>>months ago, and found a site of a guy who has just about made a shrine of 
>>Rollei 35 camera information, an aficionado of massive proportions. I 
>>don't have the site bookmarked on my home computer, but may at work.
>>
>>http://www.rollei.tv/35/rollei_35_cameras.htm
>>
>>This is sort of neat but not really what you were looking for.
>>
>>Jeffery
>>
>>
>>At 07:09 PM 11/15/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>>
>>>Being a Leica user, I never owned a Rollei 35 and yet
>>>people who use it, vouch for its small size and the
>>>quality image it can produce. Can someone
>>>knowledgeable throw some light on the Rollie 35?
>>>Apparently there are differences between 35, 35S,
>>>Tesser, Xenon lens as well as German and Singapore
>>>manufactured Rolleis.
>>>
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In reply to: Message from "Jeffery L. Smith" <jsmith45@bellsouth.net> (Re: [Leica] OT - Rollei 35)
Message from Henry Ting <henryting10@yahoo.com> ([Leica] OT - Rollei 35)