{"id":4296,"date":"2025-07-17T05:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T05:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/4296\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T05:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T05:35:12","slug":"new-rollei-compact-camera-launched-just-dont-expect-another-rollei-35-af","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/4296\/","title":{"rendered":"New Rollei compact camera launched, just don\u2019t expect another Rollei 35 AF"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rollei Powerflex X8 is now available, according to Photo Rumors<\/a>; but anyone expecting something akin to the currently sold-out, Mint Rollei 35AF<\/a> may be slightly disappointed. Whereas the latter is a modern recreation of the Rollei 35 series of film cameras, the Rollei Powerflex X8 is a standard fixed-lens digital camera.<\/p>\n

Information, other than the camera\u2019s specs, is thin on the ground, but I can only assume this is a similar case to some of the Yashica and Minolta cameras we\u2019ve seen lately, whereby the Rollei name has been licensed and applied to the body of a fairly generic compact camera. Now, this is all perfectly above board; it\u2019s just important to know that while this camera is Rollei in name, it probably doesn’t feature Rollei’s heritage.<\/p>\n

The Rollei Powerflex X8 shares a similar form factor and spec list to other cheap compact cameras on the market. It\u2019s built around a 1\/2.8-inch CMOS sensor and claims to have 64-MP resolution. However, my instinct is to regard this in a similar way to camera phones<\/a> with super-high resolution sensors, in that you can only expect so much from a smaller sensor.<\/p>\n

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The same can be said for the purported 5K \/ 25p video, with 4K maxing out at 30p and 1080p \/ 60p. There\u2019s a built-in flash, which appears to be, rather unusually, positioned on the front of the lens. On that subject, the lens itself has an 8x optical zoom, delivering a zoom range of 38-310mm (35mm equivalent) and a variable aperture of f\/1.8-2.6.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll also find a selfie camera on the rear of the camera, which isn\u2019t unusual for cheap compacts like this. It uses its own 1\/3.06-inch CMOS sensor. The rear LCD is a 3.6-inch IPS touchscreen and appears to be fixed in place.<\/p>\n

The camera has a single card slot, which takes class 10 U3 microSD cards of up to 64GB and has a USB-C port, presumably for charging. There\u2019s also no mention of RAW shooting.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve noticed that the camera is available now at Photospecialist<\/a> for \u00a3251.99, where it\u2019s said to come with a battery, various cables including a USB-A to microSD adapter, a wrist strap, neck strap and cleaning cloth.<\/p>\n

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I saw these cheap compact cameras at the Photography & Video Show, clearly inspired by the retro camera craze<\/a>. Plus, check out the Yashica FX-D 300 review<\/a> and Minolta MND25 review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rollei Powerflex X8 is now available, according to Photo Rumors; but anyone expecting something akin to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-4296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}