[rollei_list] Re: Rollei 35 Classic and Olympus Stylus

 
On Thursday, September 27, 2007, at 11:22AM, "Jerry Friedman" 
<tinycameraco@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I hate to mention this because I have no first hand
>experience. But, a great many people swear by the first
>Olympus Stylus which had a 35mm f/2.8 lens and autofocus.
>And it was (is?) available for about $80 new. Many of the
>acounts i have read claimed that it was a wonderful and
>cheap take-along and far better than anything else
>available. And, at $80 new..........
Yea I loved it, still got a great shot of my daughter when she was about two 
out of it. Like almost every camera I own produced in the last hundred years, 
it just didn't mix well with sand. 
Nobody seems to have mentioned the Cannonet Giii from canon. Now thats a nice 
lens, but the camera doesn't like water.  
I own the 35B, Singapore version, the shutter now fires at only one speed, and 
I didn't find this triotar anything to write home about, although I love the 
triotar on  the 'cord I own. They've got a lovely soft and astigmatic bokeh 
which gave a lovely kind of swirl effect in some shots of fields of daffodils I 
took about twenty years ago. But can still remember.  I should get some of 
these shots up on the web soon, I have finally got a scanner, I was going for a 
4990 on ebay, but when I checked with epson's web site to just get the specs, I 
found that they were selling the 4490 for $98 with free shiping so I gave in to 
the cheaper option.
All the best
Larry
>
>Regards, Jerry 
>
>
>--- Jan Decher <Jan.Decher@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone used one of the newer Rollei 35 Classic? I
>> really prefer  
>> the placement of the hot shoe on the top and also like
>> the re- 
>> designed flash that came with the classic kit.  A gray
>> ("platinum")   
>> one just went for about $650 on EBAY with BIN.  Not sure
>> if they ever  
>> come cheaper.
>> 
>> Wished F&H would decide to make a "run of the mill"
>> version again in  
>> the $400-600 range.  I am sure there would be good
>> outlets for it,  
>> like the posh Bauhaus-inspired  "Manufactum" warehouse in
>> Germany:   
>> http://www.manufactum.de/Suchergebnis.2033.0.html
>> Manufactum also used to sell a late re-incarnation of the
>> spring- 
>> wound Robot camera (which could be a real contender for
>> the Rollei 35.
>> 
>> Jan
>> 
>> 
>> On 27 Sep 2007, at 02:31, FreeLists Mailing List Manager
>> wrote:
>> >> ..., than
>> >> a cheap aux rangefinder on the hot shoe (hung upside
>> down!) will get
>> >> you where you need to be. The focus travel from 3 feet
>> to infinity on
>> >> the XA is about an inch and the focus patch is about
>> as precise...
>> >>
>> >> I traded my user 35S for a beautiful German many years
>> ago, and
>> >> speaking as a shooter rather than a collector/fondler,
>> I'm sorry I
>> >> did. The Sonnar on that camera is really very
>> exceptional...
>> >> Eric Goldstein
>> 
>> 
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