And not only that. It shows how poor/fragile is the film winding (and especially rewinding) mechanism. Now compare it with the Pentax 17 camera. Heaven and Earth! Well, if Pentax just had that Rollei lens...
I doubt seriously that any parts are poor or fragile. From what I have heard all along, MINT has gone out of its way to assure itself that quality oozes. The film advance, while small, is most likely very sturdy. Same with the film rewinding. Honestly, I look back at almost all of my film cameras and have always wondered why the rewinder doesn't snap off!... And they haven't ...so most likely all okay here too.
I’m not sure releasing copies to people from YouTube has been a good move Comparing it with the original Rollei, the original has more of a heft about it, plus it’s smaller. But, apart from the original Rollei being built at a time when camera building skills were relatively widespread, it was also more expensive than the new Rollei will be (over £1k in todays money if Wikipedia is right).
I saw this and I saw that comment about not being on a tripod. Funny as that comment was so adamant that unless you use a tripod your review is worthless! ... Anyhow, the 2.8 is equal to the originals and the camera is 'what it is', which,....looks good to me.
It was a bit of the usual YouTube overselling - it’s a lens test (but only of lenses in general, not this one), but hand held with a moving subject in poor light. It’s like the ones comparing two scanners that say “You can’t see this on the video, but there are big differences in the detail of these images”. One comment did mention that they were also a beta tester and that “with proper skill and handling, the results are plenty sharp, handheld or not”
I’ve used the Rollei IR, it’s nice https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/65620272
At least one of them is made by Agfa:
I really like the idea of this Rollei but like this guy in the video....I don't want AF. But, this camera is to entice the young and the retro people and they can't shoot all manual so in order for this camera to sell, it needs AF. Perhaps they will come out with one w/o AF but I doubt it.
