Rollei A110 Kompaktkamera (ca-1976) + bruksanvisning

"Vintage" Rollei A110 kompakt kamera til salgs, fra ca 1976.

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Engelsk beskrivelse:

If you have seen an expensive TLR camera, odd are it was a Rollei. Masters of their craft and well worthy of their reputation, Rollei cameras are the pinnacle of what a quality film camera should be. Whether it was a Rolleiflex or the Rollei 35 S, quality was never a second thought. Rollei already had experience making 16mm high quality still cameras, so a transition to a similar format was not breaking new ground for them. Bringing quality and craftsmanship to the forefront, the first entry for Rollei into 110 cameras debuted only two years after the film formats introduction to the public. This camera was the 1974 release of the Rollei A110.

Rollei showed a working A110 at Photokina in 1974. It seems to have caused a degree of excitement, but problems in production meant it only went on sale late the next year.

The standard Rollei A110 came in an anodized black finish. It was fully automatic with manual focus and a Zeiss licenced Rollei Tessar lens. The tiny case enclosed 260 separate parts.

This is a surprisingly heavy camera. Your first impression of how small it is collides with a second impression as you pick it up and feel the heft. High quality plastics are used in addition to metal, but only where they make good sense.

Rollei A110 Exposure system

The actual exposure system in the Rollei A110 is complex, maybe unnecessarily so. It operates with a fast silicon sensor, originally powered by a PX27 mercury 5.6v battery.

The shutter is in two parts. One is a combined shutter/diaphragm which opens up from a small aperture and heads towards fully open. Once the silicon sensor detects that enough light will have passed into the lens, the second part of the shutter closes. For short exposures the first shutter will only be at a small aperture when the second shutter closes, while for longer ones it will have opened entirely. From the rear you can see the crescent blades of the second part of the shutter being reset during the push-pull film advance to reveal the combined aperture/shutter in front of it. I’m told it is all done with magnets. The key thing is, it seems to work (at least, until it doesn’t).