Rollei 35 S Silver Edition. ( made in Singapore ) about 5000 made

Rollei 35 S  Silver edition. ( made in Singapore )

The Rollei 35 is  35mm miniature viewfinder camera built by Rollei. The original Rollei 35 was introduced at the Photokina in 1966 at this time it was the smallest existing 35mm film camera. This remains so after the Minolta-TC and Minox 35mm models. In 30 years of production around 2 million Rollei 35 where built The Rollei 35 was manufactured by DHW photo Technik up to 2015, this was the successor of Franke& Heidecke  in a small production batch. The last model was the Rollei 35 Classic an updated Rollei 35SE. The Sonnar 40mm F28 HFT is the best and fastest lens used on the Rollei’s. It was designed by Carl Zeiss with 5 elements in four groups and has the Rollei HFT multi Coating. The Sonnar is one of the finest lens designs of the 20^th century Of this nice camera there are about 5000 made in this edition to commemorate the production of the 1.500.000 camera. The camera has silver leatherette and the metal parts of the camera are silver colored. It was produced from 1978 until 1979.

Format : 24x36mm on 35mm film.

Lens : Collapsible Carl Zeiss Sonnar  40mm F2.8   5 elements in 4 groups

Filter size: M 30.5 mm

Shutter : Rollei Compur leaf shutter speeds : ½ to 1/500sec. and B

Diaphragm :  f/ 2.8 to f/22.

Flash synchronization: Hot shoe on bottom and X syncro

Light meter: Coupled CdS photo element

Film Sensitivity: 25 to 1600 ASA.

Double exposure prevention : Yes.

Battery : PX625  1.35 volt

Dimensions: 97x60x32mm