Rollei 35 question...

[Brian]

Well, got my Rollei 35SE in the mail yesterday. I love this little camera! Can't wait to take it on a ski trip next month.

I've got the controls pretty much figured out, but I have three questions:

1) looking at the back of the camera, just to the right of the viewfinder is a little lever/switch marked "R". What does this gizmo do?

2) can someone explain to me how to use the marks in the viewfinder to estimate composition? I'm assuming that the viewfinder is "normal" and that the marks somehow indicate the difference in angle of view, given the 35 has a 40mm lens.

3) there is a small button switch on the back of the camera, near the top, just below and to the right of the battery cap. Is this to release the battery?

Thanks in advance for the help!

 

[Sean]

You can download the manual here, but it costs $10 US

http://www.rolleicamera.com/manuals.htm

 

[clogz]

Hello Ross,

Answers to the Rollei 35SE questions:

1. R switch Turn this before you rewind the film.

2. parallax correction (under 1.5 meters)

3. switch to release battery holder.

The PX27 (mercury battery) is not longer for sale bec. of environmental laws.An adapter can be ordered from CRIS camera.

A complete manual can be downloaded from Rollei Club Nederland (in English)

 

[Jorge]

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You have a link for this? I love this little camera too, have had it for many many years.

 

[clogz]

Battery adapters for cameras that used to run on mercury batteries can be ordered from : www.criscam.com.

Some cameras/lightmeters can also be converted for use with silver oxide batteries as is the case with the Leica MR meter. Contact the importer.

Here in the Netherlands mercury batteries are no longer for sale but the other day when I was at my local tobacconist's (yeah, I know and I promise not to light my pipe when I am in the chatroom) the owner told me he could still supply them.

 

[Jorge]

Thanks! This is really good news.

 

[EASmithV]

I use the Alkaline batteries in mine without an issue. Keeping it in a nice, modern P&S case, the battery doesn't die for quite a while anyway.

 

[IloveTLRs]

You can download the manual from here for free: http://www.butkus.org/chinon/rollei/rollei_35se_35te/rollei_35_se_35_te.htm

 

[Someonenameddavid]

Remember you cannot collapse the lens unless you have wound on.
You have to seat the back of the camerafor the first few millimeters before you slide the back upwards to close it.

Meter scale on one side of the lens, feet and inches on the other.
If the camera says made in Germany by Rollei Zeiss and Gossen, you have a real collectors item

David

Oops edit.... A 35 SE wouldn't have th Rollei/Zeiss/Gossen name