you got me here - I never thought to actually scale weigh any of my
rolleis! LOL. But they did get lighter by the year of production..
My rollei has chrome indeed (not alu), but its hardly a prototype (I
should be so lucky!) - all the same, its substantially heavy than the
two other Rolleis (also made in Germany) of later production I had, and
of every other rollei 35 I handled. except for another first-series
model which was even nicer - the finish was satin-like, but I sold it
:-((. That one was also heavyish. If memory serves, the originally
metalic parts that were replaced by synthetic materials included the
plastic spool, the black material on the crank, gear trains.. probably
lots of other parts as well... I should check it out in the Rollei 35
book I used to have, it should still be *somewhere* around.
My dream Rollei 35 is, of course, the Rollei 35 metric. Never saw one on
ebay - just an ad in Atlanta two years ago,. and seller asked for
2000$...
Daphne
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