Hi Daphne,
I suppose the "metric" is very rare indeed - no production numbers available but the
original price was 5.180 DEM which translates as about 2.600 USD.
Yep - the Rolleis got lighter but not much plastics IMO - maybe thinner castings etc.
and maybe a plastic take-up spool also but the quality of the 35 S is still very high
indeed - it compares very favourably to any current point-and-shoot. Actually: no
contest.
All the best!
Raimo
Personal photography homepage at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen
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P�iv�: 05. toukokuuta 2001 21:39
Aihe: Re: Vs: Vs: Rollei 35,
>you got me here - I never thought to actually scale weigh any of my
>rolleis! LOL. But they did get lighter by the year of production..
>My rollei has chrome indeed (not alu), but its hardly a prototype (I
>should be so lucky!) - all the same, its substantially heavy than the
>two other Rolleis (also made in Germany) of later production I had, and
>of every other rollei 35 I handled. except for another first-series
>model which was even nicer - the finish was satin-like, but I sold it
>:-((. That one was also heavyish. If memory serves, the originally
>metalic parts that were replaced by synthetic materials included the
>plastic spool, the black material on the crank, gear trains.. probably
>lots of other parts as well... I should check it out in the Rollei 35
>book I used to have, it should still be *somewhere* around.
>My dream Rollei 35 is, of course, the Rollei 35 metric. Never saw one on
>ebay - just an ad in Atlanta two years ago,. and seller asked for
>2000$...
>
>Daphne
>
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