Olympus-35 SP with 42mm Lens

Olympus-35 SP with 42mm Lens

All cameras come with 6 months warranty.

Serial number: 155042

This kit includes:

• Original strap
• Original leather case
• Olympus film camera body
• f/42mm lens

Description:

The Olympus 35 SP is a 35 mm rangefinder camera made by Olympus in Japan. It is the only 35 mm rangefinder with a dual center-weighted average metering and spot metering system. Metering is also available in manual mode, which is quite unusual amongst Japanese rangefinder cameras of this era.

The Olympus 35 SP has a fully automatic program mode using either a center weighted evaluation, or a ‘spot’ metering system that was quite rare for the late 1960s and early 1970s.  The auto exposure system runs on a tiny battery, and draws so little current, there isn’t even an on-off switch.  Luckily for us manual control freaks, the camera will work just fine with a dead battery, or no battery at all; only the auto exposure system won’t work.

Features:

Aperture - F/1.7-F/16 manually set, and F/22 in auto mode. One stop increments only from F/2.8-16, however, you can use in-between settings if you want.

ISO - 25-800 (DIN 15-30) manually set, but only used for auto mode or taking exposure settings for manual operation.

Focusing distance - 2.8′ to infinity, or 0.85m to infinity

Light meter - CdS, angle of acceptance of average reading; 20°, or 6° spot.

Shutter and speed - Seiko FLA leaf shutter with ‘ee’ electric eye, has five straight aperture blades; 10 speed shutter going from 1 second to 1/500 second, plus bulb mode.

Battery - PX625 1.3V battery

Light meter - N/A

Flash - N/A

Date Function - N/A