35mm

The Rollei 35s is a great little camera

The Rollei 35

This camera is fully packed, fully frustrating and fully fun. Rollei is an established, still operating and very well respected camera company. And yet, they produced this little gem. The Rollei 35 is arguably the smallest full frame 35mm camera ever made. It is also the quirkiest camera in the universe. The film advance lever is on the wrong side. The viewfinder is on the wrong side. The shutter speed dial is on the front of the camera, and wait… so is the aperture dial.
For many models, the hot shoe used for mounting your flash is on the bottom of the camera instead of the top where it should be. And to top everything off, it is a scale focus camera. This means that unless you are really fast with a tape measure, you’ll need to guess how far away things are.
Despite all of this, the camera is awesome. It’s small enough to fit in your pocket, so you’ll actually take it with you. It has a built-in lightmeter and it’s all metal. This camera is as small as some modern point-and-shoots, but it offers you full control over all of the camera functions with knobs instead of menus. It’s has sharp glass and unless the one you find has been run over by a truck, it will still be working 20 years from now.

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