This is a great little camera for those looking for a small 35mm rangefinder with a quality lens. Always check the battery chamber and expect that you will have to replace the foam seals.
A nice step up from the Olympus Trip 35 - which lacks any user control over the shutter speeds and aperture. As opposed the Trip 35, the 35RC offers a full manual exposure mode. On the 35 RC, if someone wishes to use the shutter preferred auto exposure mode with a modern silver oxide battery, (without the need to ASA lever to a speed slower than a particular film's ISO box speed) - I highly recommend the purchase of a Kanto Camera MR-9 Mercury Battery Adapter off of eBay. All in all the 35 RC was a very desirable travel camera back in the days before the onslaught of plastic bodied, fully automatic, battery dependent, point and shoot cameras that were popular in the nineties.
This is a great little camera for those looking for a small 35mm rangefinder with a quality lens. Always check the battery chamber and expect that you will have to replace the foam seals.
A nice step up from the Olympus Trip 35 - which lacks any user control over the shutter speeds and aperture. As opposed the Trip 35, the 35RC offers a full manual exposure mode.
On the 35 RC, if someone wishes to use the shutter preferred auto exposure mode with a modern silver oxide battery, (without the need to ASA lever to a speed slower than a particular film's ISO box speed) - I highly recommend the purchase of a Kanto Camera MR-9 Mercury Battery Adapter off of eBay.
All in all the 35 RC was a very desirable travel camera back in the days before the onslaught of plastic bodied, fully automatic, battery dependent, point and shoot cameras that were popular in the nineties.
I will have a future video on the Olympus Trip 35 and the Olympus-Pen EES-2.
Mike, you've found the fountain of youth! You always look the same...
Olympus Mju II was about as small as you can get with 35mm.