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Took advantage of the warm weather to ride around the area. Took a break at Ellanor C. Lawrence park to take some pictures.
Rollei 35T
Rollei 40mm Tessar f/3.5
FujiColor Superia 400
Developed with CineStill Cs41 "Color Simplified" kit
Some of my camera collection - the smalleds 35mm cameras I own...
The Olympus XA, The Rollei 35T, Rollei 35 LED and Minox 35 PL are all full-frame, 35mm film cameras - amongst the smallest such ever made.
The Olympus The XA, introduced in 1979 was the benchmark of the series containing a true rangefinder focusing mechanism and an aperture priority exposure system within its tiny case. It had a six element Zuiko 35mm f:2.8 lens, a CdS exposure meter and a shutter to 1/500.
In June 1971, Rollei transferred the production of the Rollei 35 camera from Germany to Singapore. Until August of 1974, the cameras were still equipped with a Carl Zeiss German made Tessar 3,4/40mm lens, a construction with 4 elements.
Next to the Tessar model, Rollei produced a Rollei 35 in Singapore with a Schneider S-Xenar lens from July 1972 - April 1973. This was due to a supply shortage of the Zeiss made Tessar lenses. Of these, a chrome and a black version were made, in a total of 30,000 pieces. Also, about 200 Rollei 35 with this S-Xenar lens were made in black with brown Alligator printed leather. These S-Xenar cameras were not offered in Germany, but in Eastern Europe, Italy and the US.
In September 1974, when the Rollei 35 S (with the 5-element Sonnar lens) was presented as a new model, the original Rollei 35 was renamed Rollei 35 T and the lens was substituted by a Rollei Made Tessar lens
Without its own development department, the Singapore production facility asked Rollei Germany for permission to make a redesign of the Rollei 35 B. The uncoupled selenium light meter was replaced by a new electronically coupled light meter, using variable resistors for transferring the aperture and shutter control settings to the light meter. The new designation Rollei 35 LED resulted from the three light emitting diodes in the viewfinder, which indicated overexposure, correct exposure, or underexposure. In October 1977 the first datasheet appeared and in January 1978 preproduction started. But the first models suffered from clumsy design of the power switch, which activated the light meter permanently. If the user forgot to switch the camera off, the battery was drained in just 15 hours. Furthermore, the PX-27 battery could be inserted the wrong way, causing damaged electronics. From August 1978 onward an improved model was made, where the light meter was only activated when the release button was depressed slightly.
he Minox 35 PL continued Minox's successful range of 35mm compact cameras, reputedly the smallest full-frame 35mm cameras ever made. The lens retracts into the camera body when closed, fully opening the cover activates the battery. Different models in the Minox 35 range were identified by shutter release buttons in differing colours: the PL is easily identified by its green shutter release button.
The PL's novel feature was its automatic exposure, using the 'A" setting on the aperture ring. Previous Minox 35 models had aperture priority exposure, the PL's aperture settings were only to be used for flash photography. One result of the PL's automatic exposure was the removal of the depth of field scale from the focusing ring. It also featured an electronic self-timer, with a flashing LED above the camera's name. Another improvement on previous models in the Minox 35 range is the siting of the cable release socket to the side of the shutter release button, to prevent accidental triggering of the shutter.