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Minolta 110 Zoom
This is the "Minolta 110 Zoom". It is a 110mm, single lens reflex camera produced by Minolta from 1976 to 1979.
The 110 Zoom is an very unusual camera for a number of reasons. First, simply the fact that it is a 110mm SLR. Very few SLRs were designed to utilize the 110 format. Second, it's unusual flattened shape. Other 110 SLRs such as the Pentax Auto 110 resembled a 35mm SLR. However, in 1979 Minolta released a successor to the 110 Zoom called the "110 Zoom Mk II", which featured a more conventional SLR shape. Third, it was one of the few 110 cameras that could detect the ISO of the film cartridge (from 100 to 400 ISO) and automatically adjust the exposure settings.
The camera itself is very well built, and features high quality lenses which rivaled most 35mm SLRs at the time. It requires 2 LR44 batteries to operate, and has a manual exposure override of -2 to +2.
Click here to see a scan of the manual for the "Minolta 110 Zoom":
Minolta 110 Zoom
This is the "Minolta 110 Zoom". It is a 110mm, single lens reflex camera produced by Minolta from 1976 to 1979.
The 110 Zoom is an very unusual camera for a number of reasons. First, simply the fact that it is a 110mm SLR. Very few SLRs were designed to utilize the 110 format. Second, it's unusual flattened shape. Other 110 SLRs such as the Pentax Auto 110 resembled a 35mm SLR. However, in 1979 Minolta released a successor to the 110 Zoom called the "110 Zoom Mk II", which featured a more conventional SLR shape. Third, it was one of the few 110 cameras that could detect the ISO of the film cartridge (from 100 to 400 ISO) and automatically adjust the exposure settings.
The camera itself is very well built, and features high quality lenses which rivaled most 35mm SLRs at the time. It requires 2 LR44 batteries to operate, and has a manual exposure override of -2 to +2.
Click here to see a scan of the manual for the "Minolta 110 Zoom":