Rollei Sportsline 62 operation review

I only used the Rollei Sportline 62 camera at the beach and underwater, so I thought it would be nice to test its capabilities for street shooting.

The camera has a fixed aperture of f2.8. Auto ISO setting tends to expose for ISO 50 or 100 and is not suitable for moving subjects. I selected ISO 400 and did not see any deterioration of the image quality. That said, image quality is not good at all. There is high contrast and over saturation but the pictures are just acceptable. Shutter lag is a big problem. You have to press the shutter well ahead before the shot. I usually press the shutter and the quickly compose the picture by turning my hand to the subject. Lastly, the camera is a battery drainer. Use only strong alkaline batteries and have a spare of 4-6pieces.

I used LR3 to edit the samples below.

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some more samples

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I shot a roll of Kodak Ultra 400 with this wonderful camera.

With the Tokina 12-24mm / f4 wide angle zoom. It shows vignetting from 12mm to 15mm.

with the Helios 44-2 58mm/f2 manual focus M42 standard lens.

Katerina

and Kleopatra

with the Sigma 28-105mm

Nikon L35AF

A very capable point and shoot camera. Solid, heavy and not so small. It has a 35mm lens with an aperture f2.8. It's fully automatic, the flash pops up if the light is not enough for a steady picture but can be switched back off.

Sample shots

Cafe on the beach

Flower alley

The usual store display

 

 Junk for sale

 Chair seller

 Empty cafe

Agfamatic 126

Another instamatic-type camera, found it with film. No settings in this one. fixed aperture and a fixed shutter speed, the speed changes if a flashcube is inserted.

The photo lab developped the film, my old crappy scanner scanned it. I did photograph the negatives. Quality of the images is very poor. Time to get me a new scanner!

Sunday morning at the sea:

 These are rephotographed

Kodak Instamatic 25

I found another Kodak Instamatic with a half used film in it, so I gave the 5euro bill and bought it.
I had the lever to cloudy all the time and snapped the film till the end.

The photo lab developed the film but was unable to scan it.
I did it with my old 35mm scanner. The film was very weak and the scan quality awful.

Photographs from the previous owner:

And these are mine:

All scanned images were tweaked in Lr3