This week I shall mostly be shooting with – a 1973 Rollei 35!
One fateful night in the early sixties, a slightly mad camera engineer named Heinz Waaske drank a little too much schnapps to ward off the bitter cold of the German winter and came up with the design for what is still the smallest fully mechanical 35mm camera ever produced: the Rollei 35!
Rollei 35
Small it undoubtedly is (about the size of a pack of smokes), but it is also definitely…well, weird! Shutter speed, aperture and film speed settings are all on dials on the front of the camera, the flash shoe and film rewind cranks are on the base, and the film wind lever is on the left side of the top plate.
The camera is a scale focus design, so you basically guess the distance to your subject and set this on the focus dial on the front of the retractable Tessar lens. The built in meter is a match-needle type, visible though a small window on the top plate. The leaf shutter has speeds from 1/2 to 1/500 of a second, and bulb (B) setting.
I have this tiny little gem loaded with Neopan 400 and will post the results later this week.
lovely camera :) I’m waiting for photos from that ;) cheersss
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I love this little camera. Unfortunately I injured my back a few days after writing this article and haven’t been able to shoot with it yet. Hopefully I’ll get out this week and try it.
And, no, I didn’t injure my back from lifting this camera :)
Did you get your Summitar yet?
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