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Minolta 110 Zoom SLR Mk 1
I found this in a brilliant local camera shop (now sadly no more), where interesting and old cameras could always be found, and remembered reading reviews when it was introduced (1976). It was an interesting idea by Minolta and appealed to me as an easily pocketable option to my X500/700 outfit when that wasn't convenient. It even had a macro setting and produced pretty good results despite the 110 format thanks in part to advances in film technology. It came with auto exposure but not TTL, the exposure meter lenses can be seen to the left of the lens the assembly rotating to select f-stop.The 25 - 50mm (f4.5-f16.0) zoom lens has close-focusing capability down to 11 inches (they called it a macro setting). The camera is fully-automatic, aperture-priority exposure and the CdS meter has exposure compensation so that film from ISO 25 to 1600 can be used and not only the default 100 and 400.
Shutter speeds range from 10 seconds to 1/1000 second. X is flash at 1/150 second and there is a B setting, but otherwise no manual control. LEDs in the viewfinder give under and over exposure warnings as well as battery low status.
Minolta 110 Zoom SLR Mk 1
I found this in a brilliant local camera shop (now sadly no more), where interesting and old cameras could always be found, and remembered reading reviews when it was introduced (1976). It was an interesting idea by Minolta and appealed to me as an easily pocketable option to my X500/700 outfit when that wasn't convenient. It even had a macro setting and produced pretty good results despite the 110 format thanks in part to advances in film technology. It came with auto exposure but not TTL, the exposure meter lenses can be seen to the left of the lens the assembly rotating to select f-stop.The 25 - 50mm (f4.5-f16.0) zoom lens has close-focusing capability down to 11 inches (they called it a macro setting). The camera is fully-automatic, aperture-priority exposure and the CdS meter has exposure compensation so that film from ISO 25 to 1600 can be used and not only the default 100 and 400.
Shutter speeds range from 10 seconds to 1/1000 second. X is flash at 1/150 second and there is a B setting, but otherwise no manual control. LEDs in the viewfinder give under and over exposure warnings as well as battery low status.