unzipped the zipper and pealed back the case I saw the word Rollei on the front. My heart must have skipped
a beat, "in the $2 bin????" I am taking this home with me. I love these Thrift stores.
(Last week I found a Bolex movie camera.)
camera if the Queen of England owns one.
built . The Rollei 35 and the later models enjoy a near cult following today.
Like those hats the Queen wears.
made by Carl Zeiss, themselves excellent lenses.
This one even has a protective filter on the lens, obviously previously owned by a knowledgeable photographer.
body. To make the Rollei small enough to put in your pocket the lens sits tight to the body, to focus, it pulls out
and locks in place. Highly engineered and one of the most expensive parts of the camera is that tube that holds
the 40 mm Carl Zeiss Tessar f/3.5 lens.
and the film rewind lock. On the bottom the film rewind lever, frame counter, tripod socket, film cover release
as well as the flash shoe is on the bottom of the camera.
I wonder, do you have to shoot flash photos with the camera upside down?
having a rangefinder or a SLR view through the lens making the Rollei 35 a scale-focus only camera. Both feet
and meters are provided on the lens. To help focus the 40mm wide-ish angle lens you could stop down
to around f/8 to get a greater depth of field. This is not a point and shoot camera.