the International Rollei Club

Hi I recently found a Rollei 35 tucked away in my home the people who owned the house before had a tendency to hide things in odd places!

For the past few days I've been researching these cameras and I found out that production was moved to singapore in 1970 and the Lens was changed to a different lens because the Carl Zeiss lenses were in low supply.

The Camera I have is a Made in Singapore model of the Rollei 35 (not branded as the Rollei 35T) and has a Tessar F3.5 lens. The model number is 6261876 and is printed on the back next to the viewfinder not the on the lens as in newer models.

From all this I have come to the conclusion that the camera was made before the 35S had been released because of its branding as the 35 and was one of the first Singaporian models because of the Tessar lens. This brings me to think that It was made around 1970 ish but any further information from anyone would be appreciated in determining the year it was made and possibly any higher value because of its individuality as it is technically German because of the lens?

Thanks

Ariel

The Made by Rollei Tessar lens on Rollei 35 started in april 1973, the camera you have is very common I own one with s/n 6035500.
However you can get slightly higher value on Made in Germany Rollei 35.
For collectors are very important also the original box and the set of accessories that come with it.