The Film Retriever

Cute little thing! This is a review of the Rollei XF 35, a camera that i bought in a carboot sale and stayed with me for a few weeks before deciding to pass it on. The Rollei XF35 came out in the now distant 1974. It followed an increasing trend of fully automated cameras like the Olympus 35DC (reviewed in my blog), the Minolta H-matic or the Petri Computor II just to name a few with fast lenses and compact dimensions. The  Rollei XF 35 was an affordable camera made to supplement the already very popular 35-series. In the early 1980's it cost around $60 almost half the price of the more prestigious siblings. One thing that you notice when you pick up this camera is its light weight and small dimensions. It is smaller than the Olympus 35 DC and lighter. Main selling point for this camera is the lens, it is a Sonnar design, 5 elements in 4 groups and multicoated, a lens of honorable background and well regarded in the photographic industry. I shot half a roll of film fo...