Rollei 35

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Just bought one of these... anyone a fan here? Which flash are you using with it if you are using a flash?
 
I´m a fan; no flash for my Rollei 35!

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I am too! Now that my Tessar one is dead, I just bought a 35 SE that is on its way to CLA as these cameras (deserve it and) tend to suffer from wrong slow speeds.

It just tend to enjoy this camera more than my Leica III f.
 
I'm a fan too. Got a made in Germany one that needs fixin (shutter). When it works it's a great camera with nice lenses. Take-everywhere camera with style.
No flash for me either.


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I've had my Rollei 35 SE since new in 1984 and it's never let me down. The light meter has been accurate enough for slides, and the portability make it an easy camera to take anywhere. I guess it's come through long use of this camera that I've grown used to 40mm in preference to either 35 or 50mm. With regard to flash, I have used it with my Vivitar 283, but it is very awkward - flash with small camera attached. It works, but this is not a good camera ergonomically to use with flash.

Steve
 
I have the 35TE with the Tessar. The lens is sharp and contrasty. Hard to find the battery, I need to make up something. The only thing that drives me crazy is how the lens collapses. Advance the film, press the release, then collapse the lens.

I tend to favor my Leica CL with a Nikkor 5cm f2 or Canon 50/1.5 on it.
 
Mine work all the time! The only flash that makes sense (IMHO) is Rollei's own 100 XLC- almost all others are bigger than the camera itself.

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I've had various models over the years, right now I use a 35B.
@micromontenegro: I never heard of the "C", what is that? A "B" without meter?

Anyone know where to find lens caps and hoods for the 3.5 lens? (24mm I think)
 
The first "real camera" that I bought for my son was a Rollei 35. Within a year or so he'd talked me into getting him a Leica CL, 90mm Elmar-C, and a 21mm Cosina Voigtlander lens. The stuff mostly sits unused these days while he and his wife shoot digital.

My pick for a versatile flash for smaller cameras is the Vivitar 2500. It looks just like a miniature 285, complete with tilt, zoom head, uses two AA cells, has two auto ranges plus manual, both a hot foot and a standard Vivitar synch cord socket. A flip-up ultra wide adapter was made for it but finding one now might be a problem. A few companies make diffusers to fit.

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I used a Rollei 35 for a couple of years...it was my only camera at that time....I took it with me to Europe on a backpacking trip for a year...it never failed me...I also got published for the first time with that camera (magazines in America, Brazil and Germany)....that camera taught me a lot about photography.....I also have the Rollei flash that came with it....I had an original "hard plastic" hood for it, but it broke because of user error...I ended up finding a rollei rubber hood for it later on.....sadly, it hasnt seen much use in about 10-11 years....it is sitting somewhere in my parents house.....I also have an original yellow filter for it that I would use for Black and White...lovely camera indeed

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cheers, michael
 
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The smallest best fit is the teensy Rollei flash but you really need to hold the camera upside down because the camera is designed with the flash shoe on the bottom. Otherwise the shadow over peoples' heads looks strange. I think that the one I had was a 15-B. That was a long time ago!
 
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I won't be making photos of people that much and I won't be using the flash all of the time. However, there are multiple rollei flashes... not just one.
 
I'm a fan although mine broke and went to a new home. (RFF member intends to fix it)

I'll be getting another one when the timing is right.

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micromontenegro said:
Take your time, read. Maybe you will find the answer around post number 7

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Yes, that is ONE option... there are a few others. I am sorry if my question is so annoying that you have to roll your eyes, but I want to hear from others who have used a few different rollei flashes. Is that ok sir? Are you really that upset that I didn't take your suggestion as gospel?
 
i have a couple of small rollei flash units that seem to be made for the rollei. one is fully manual, the other is a thyristor type with an auto setting that makes life easier.

rollei models:
35 - original made in germany, tessar lens f3.5
35t, 35s -meter needle on top deck, tessar f3.5 and sonnar f2.8 lenses
35te, 35se - meter led's in viewfinder, tessar and sonnar
35b - cheaper triotar lens and cheaper more plastic internals
35c - like b with no meter?
some more expensive classic and fancy metal finished and commemorative models
 

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jsrockit said:
Yes, that is ONE option... there are a few others. I am sorry if my question is so annoying that you have to roll your eyes, but I want to hear from others who have used a few different rollei flashes. Is that ok sir? Are you really that upset that I didn't take your suggestion as gospel?
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Nope, that is not an option, that is the answer to your question. If you chosse to ignore it, tant pis pour vous. I just though you were asking :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
I used to use the Braun 17B flash on the Rollei 35 as well as other small cameras, if you can find a working sample. There were two version---one manual only and one was automatic. I don' remember the model number of the automatic version though. Perhaps it was called 17BC.
 
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