Advice on High Quality Point and Shoot 35mm

[elekm]

The Rollei Prego 70 is a nice little P&S. I've used one of these off and on for several years. It has a 2x zoom -- 35mm-70mm. Sharp lens, small boxy body. Good camera.

My wife had an Olympus P&S. A very sharp lens but a horrible viewfinder -- among the worst that I've had the misfortune to use.

Years ago, my wife had a Canon Snappy something with a fixed-focus lens. It was a piece of junk.

The Rollei AFM 35 is an excellent camera although overpriced for what it is (advanced P&S). It's not as costly as the Rollei QZ cameras, which are large cameras with full autoexposure, aperture- or shutter-priority autoexposure or full manual with shutter speeds running from 16 seconds to 1/8,000 (that's right: 1/8,000).

When it comes to high end, Leica had a number of P&S cameras, as did Kyocera under the Contax name.

[Anscojohn]

I looked for a Rollei Prego 80 but none were on ebay right now.

I found a Nikon Lite Touch 70 for $35, including shipping, Buy it Now, and decided to go with that for now.

I now remember that the camera my wife lost was a Pentax IQ Zoom, 30-90 as I recall.

Sandy

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If you look at a picture of the Rollei Prego zooms, and look at pictures of the same-era Samsungs with the same specs, you should see they are identical. FWIW.

[mcgrattan]

The Rollei AFM 35 is an excellent camera although overpriced for what it is (advanced P&S).

Actually, I got mine pretty cheap 2nd hand: for about 20% of what I'd have paid for a Contax T2 or T3. Less even than I'd have paid for a Yashica T4.

[Removed Account]

I have an Olympus Stylus 120 camera with 38-120mm zoom and ED, resumably extra-low dispersion, lens. I haven't used it that much since I bought it but I've been really impressed with the image quality off it. I do second the tendency towards red-eye though but a good lab, even 1 hour, should correct that for you. We do where I work!

[benjiboy]

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If you look at a picture of the Rollei Prego zooms, and look at pictures of the same-era Samsungs with the same specs, you should see they are identical. FWIW.

They were probably made in the same factory John, It's what's called "label engineering" It's so they can sell the product with the most prestigious name at a higher price.

[ann]

sandy,

did you check the rolli prego 90 or 120?

[Ian Grant]

They were probably made in the same factory John, It's what's called "label engineering" It's so they can sell the product with the most prestigious name at a higher price.

Not forgetting that Samsung bough Rollei a few years ago, 1992, and are partly responsible for asset stripping the name

Ian

[benjiboy]

Not forgetting that Samsung bough Rollei a few years ago, 1992, and are partly responsible for asset stripping the name

Ian

I didn't know that Ian, however I do remember stocking Fujica and Nikon video camcorders in my shop that were identical in every way, and the Nikon one was £100 more expensive.

[Pumal]

I love my Black Olympus Stylus Epic. Great pictures!

[David Brown]

My wife owned a point and shoot 35mm film camera for many years ... it was a fairly high quality Pentax with a nice zoom lens.

Sandy:

I recommend (and still use) the Pentax IQZoom 928. 28-90mm lens!

http://cgi.ebay.com/PENTAX-IQ-ZOOM-9...3286.m20.l1116

If you found a used one on Ebay from an individual, it would probably go for $15.