On Mon, 5 May 2003 14:10:58 +0100, "Bandicoot" <"insert_handle_here"@techemail.com> wrote:

>"Karl Winkler" <kwinkler@sennheiserusa.com> wrote in message

>news:779042cf.0305031256.6b0040a4@posting.google.com...

>[SNIP]

>> I've used a German-made Rollei 35 with Tessar lens and I must say, it

>> is a very fine performer. Not so easy to focus with close subjects and

>> anything bigger than f/11, but nonetheless a very nice lens.

>>

>> -Karl

>> http://pages.cthome.net/karlwinkler

>

>In the late '70s / early '80s my mother had one of these, and I used to

>borrow it from time to time. Really nice little camera that I got some

>excellent results with - I was rather sorry when years later she sold it

>without asking me if I wanted to buy it from her.

>Peter

I remember when "Consumer Reports" covered the various

mini-35mm cameras of the time - and had a side-bar pointing

out how poor the Rollei 35 was compared with the (mostly

long forgotten) alternatives...;-)