Lens serial # inconsistency on Rollei 35SE

<p>I'll be taking delivery on a late Rollei 35SE (the one with the aperture wheel lock) and I noticed that the lens serial number starts with 22xxxxx instead of 27xxxxx like others I've seen in ebay ads for this camera. The number 22xxxxx does appear on early 35S cameras that predates the SE by several years. I doubt it's a switched id ring since I've seen a picture of a 35 Classic Platin from 1986 with a lens serial # starting with 23xxxxx. These cameras were made by Rollei in Germany after the Singapore plant closed in 1981. Could this be a German lens on a late Singapore body? Anyone have a clue on this one?</p>

<p>If this is a Rollei bayonet lens, there is no reason why the lens did not originally appear on a different body. I find Pentax cameras of a certain vintage with Pentax lenses that were not offered on that body in the beginning to wit: 1967 body with a Pentax SMC 50 when a Super Takumar would have been the "original" offering.</p>

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<p>If this is a Rollei bayonet lens, there is no reason why the lens did not originally appear on a different body.</p>

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<p>I don't think it's a "bayonet lens" at all.</p>

<p>This is not an interchangable lens. The Rollei 35SE is a fixed lens, scale focus camera.</p>

<p>Regretfully I was asleep at the switch. I had a Rollei 35 TE with aperture wheel lock, sold it, still have early German Rollei 35 with a Tessar front element focus serial number 47497XX. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.</p>