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Fujifilm Klasse

Fujifilm · Fixed lens · 24×36mm on 35mm film · 2001

Also known as: Fujifilm Klasse · Fuji Klasse · フジフイルム クラッセ · Rollei AFM 35 · Rollei AFM35

Variants & identification

Variant Mount Years Serial ranges Production
Fujifilm Klasse 35mm compact 2001–2006 — No figure published, for either badge
Rollei AFM 35 35mm compact 2001–2006 — No figure published
  1. The Rollei AFM 35 is inside this family as a badge variant because every source that has examined both describes one camera, and the Rollei manual's own specification — S-Apogon 38mm f/2.6 HFT, four elements in three components, 0.4 m, bulb 1–60 s, CR2 — matches the Klasse figure for figure. A Rollei collector would want it on its own page; a badge is a variant.
  2. Speed, in context. f/2.6 is a third of a stop faster than the f/2.8 Sonnar on the Contax T2 and the f/2.8 on the Olympus mju-II. Its successor the Klasse S went BACK to f/2.8 to suit a new leaf shutter, which makes the original the fastest Klasse.
  3. No production figure has been published for either badge, and none of the writers who compare the two supplies one.
How to tell them apart (expand)
  • A Tessar-type — four elements in three groups — running at f/2.6, which is quick for the type and the reason the camera exists
  • Aperture-priority AND programmed exposure, with a manual focus option beside the autofocus: more control than the compacts it was priced against
  • Bulb from 1 to 60 s, which no other premium compact of its generation offered

Fujifilm Klasse:

  • Super-EBC Fujinon 38mm 1:2.6 on the front ring — a third of a stop faster than the Contax T2's Sonnar and the mju-II's lens
  • Sold in Japan; the export market got the Rollei-badged version below

Rollei AFM 35:

  • The same camera under Rollei's name for Europe, its lens marked S-Apogon 38mm f/2.6 HFT — Rollei's coating name in place of Fuji's EBC, four elements in three components per the Rollei manual
  • The Rollei manual's own specification matches the Klasse in every figure read: f/2.6, four elements in three groups, 0.4 m close focus, bulb from 1 to 60 s, CR2 battery

Specifications

Format
24×36mm on 35mm film
Shutter
electronic leaf shutter, programmed or aperture-priority · 1/2 s to 1/1000 s in the automatic range, plus a bulb setting of 1 to 60 s — per the Rollei AFM 35 manual, whose figures match every account of the Klasse
Meter
Through-the-lens programme with aperture-priority override; the maker's own specification of the metering cell was not found for either badge.
Country
Japan

Where sources disagree

Rollei AFM 35 introduction
  • 2001, simultaneous with the Klasse (rangefinderforum thread comparing the two; most write-ups)
  • 2002 (several European write-ups of the Rollei alone)

Better supported: Unresolved

A year apart on what is otherwise agreed to be one camera. The likeliest reading is a Japan launch in 2001 and a European launch under the Rollei badge the following year, but no source read here states that sequence — it is the entry's own reconciliation and is not asserted.

What reviewers say

History

By 2001 the premium compact had a settled shape — a titanium body, a fixed lens of about 38mm, an f/2.8 aperture, autofocus and program exposure — and Fuji’s entry into it is interesting for the three ways it declined to follow. The Klasse’s Tessar-type lens runs at f/2.6, a third of a stop quicker than the Sonnar on the Contax T2 or the lens on the Olympus mju-II, which on a four-element design is not nothing. It offers aperture priority beside its programme, and a manual focus setting beside its autofocus. And it has a bulb range from one second to sixty, which no rival of its generation provides at all. It was a compact built for someone who occasionally wanted to decide things.

It was sold in Japan. Europe got the same camera as the Rollei AFM 35, with the lens ring reading S-Apogon 38mm f/2.6 HFT — Rollei’s coating name where Fuji’s says Super-EBC. The Rollei manual’s own specification matches the Klasse figure for figure: four elements in three components, 0.4 metres close focus, bulb from one to sixty seconds, a CR2 cell good for about 360 exposures. Whether the coating genuinely differs, or only the word on the ring, is not settled by anything read for this page. The two badges are dated a year apart in the literature — 2001 for the Fuji, 2001 or 2002 for the Rollei — and the entry leaves that open rather than reconcile it with a story no source tells.

The Rollei is the collectors’ version, and sells for more, for the ordinary reason that a Rollei badge on a Japanese compact is rare and a Fuji badge is not. Six years later Fuji replaced the camera with the Klasse S, which kept the body and the Tessar and slowed the lens to f/2.8 to suit a new leaf shutter — so the original is, and will remain, the fastest Klasse. No production figure has been published for either badge.

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This history is AI-written, from the sources listed at the foot of the page. Where the record is silent it says so rather than filling the gap — but no human wrote these sentences.

Example photos

Sample photo taken with the Fujifilm Klasse
Akihabara — shot on a Fujifilm Klasse (Ryo Fukasawa) — Ryo FUKAsawa from Tokyo, Japan, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)

Sample photo wanted — shot with a Fujifilm Klasse? We'd love to feature it (with credit).

Live listings

Asking price, USD: a median of $750 across 5 fixed-price listings on 2026-09-10 (middle half $700–$850). Tracked since 2026-09-06, 2 days: up 25% from $600.

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2026-09-06$600$53–$7508

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Related: Fujifilm Klasse S · Fujifilm Klasse W · Contax T2 · Olympus mju-II

Sources (4)

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