Being able to set the exposure before bringing the camera up to your eye is a big advantage. Setting the focus the same way also reduces the time the camera is at your eye. Both big pluses for taking candid pictures of people.
On Apr 16, 2010, at 4:54 AM, John Wild wrote:
Carlos,I thought that one of the reasons why the 35 'Classic' was based on the original 35T/S was that the 35TE/SE cameras were battery guzzlers - the LEDs of the day were power hungry but the advantage was that you could set the correct exposure while having the camera to your eye which was less 'hit or miss' than looking down at the camera from the top and hoping that it was pointing in roughly the right direction to get an accurate meter reading.This may be partly where the 'inconsistent' meter reading idea came from.- 'Cover! Incoming---------' (from Marc) ;-) John On 15/04/2010 13:00, "CarlosMFreaza" <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:When I bought my Rollei 35 a few years ago, the lightmeter was disconnected regarding shutter speeds and f stops; the problem was solved during the CLA, I obtained the original mercury cell, the lightmeter is very accurate, someway surprising for so little mechanical camera. Rollei 35 SE cameras with electronic lightmeters were part of RolleiSingapore overproduction (150000 were made from 1979 to 1981) and soldbeyond the bankruptcy, up to about 1983.When Rollei Fototechnik decided to produce Rollei 35 special editions, they came back to the traditional needle lightmeter made by Gossen andthen I think spare parts for the TE and SE lightmeters are very difficult to find today. Carlos 2010/4/15 Hauke Fath <hauke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:At 23:37 Uhr -0400 14.4.2010, Marc James Small wrote:With respect, I had always thought the claims that the Rollei 35 family had unreliable meters was so much persiflage until I obtained my currentSingapore 35S.Note that what the OP has is actually a 35 SE - the light meter being the major difference between the S and SE, they are not really compareable here.Both my experience from roughly a dozen colour slide films on a Rollei 35 S, and my dad's experience from shooting slide film on a Rollei 35 T for 30 years seems to indicate that the meter is doing fine, as long as (like with any light meter) you take into account the measuring angle and the integralmeasuring characteristics. YMMV, as usual. hauke -- "It's never straight up and down" (DEVO)--- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org- Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list
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