Minolta 110 Zoom SLR
The Minolta 110 Zoom SLR is an analog SLR camera from the Japanese camera manufacturer Minolta . The camera, built between 1976 and 1979, was the world's first reflex camera for pocket cassette film .
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The 110 Zoom SLR is a single lens reflex camera . It measures approx. 53.5 × 108 × 132 millimeters and weighs around 430 grams. The built-in Rokkor macro lens contains 10 free-standing lenses , plus an additional close-up lens that can be swiveled in. The zoom range goes from 25 to 50 mm with a f-number of 4.5. The camera has a time automatic to control the exposure, this is between 1/1000 and 10 seconds. Over- and underexposure are indicated by LEDs in the viewfinder. The viewfinder itself is a Porro prism viewfinder with a micro prism grid . Aperture and exposure compensation can also be set manually on the camera. Long exposure can also be selected. There is a hot shoe on the top of the camera for flash synchronization . Two button cells are required to power the camera .
history
In 1972, Kodak launched the pocket film to build on the success of the in-house Instamatic system. The concept became very successful, with pocket cameras recording a market share of around 40 percent in the second half of the 1970s . In 1976 Minolta launched the 110 Zoom SLR, the world's first full-fledged SLR camera for this type of film. The camera was presented at the Photokina 1976 in Cologne . The most striking feature of this camera was its futuristic-looking design, which differed considerably from conventional SLR cameras. The 110 Zoom SLR was nicknamed the “burger camera” because of its flat shape and the way it was held, reminiscent of eating a hamburger .
In 1978, Pentax was the second manufacturer to bring another SLR camera for pocket film onto the market with the Pentax Auto 110 . In contrast to the 110 Zoom SLR , its design was based on classic SLR cameras, and it also had interchangeable lenses.
Minolta released the successor to the 110 Zoom SLR in 1979 , the Minolta 110 Zoom SLR Mark II . With the successor model, Minolta discarded the extravagant design; the new camera, like the model from Pentax, looked like a scaled-down “classic” SLR camera.
literature
- Josef Scheibel: Minolta 110 Zoom SLR. Heering-Verlag, Seebruck am Chiemsee 1977.
Web links
- Jon Sienkiewicz: Only From the Mind of Minolta - Looking Back 40 Years at the Minolta 110 Zoom SLR Camera. Shutterbug Classic Camera Reviews. (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Minolta 110 Zoom SLR Owners Manual. Minolta Camera Co., 1976 (English).
- ↑ Minolta 110 Zoom SLR (1976). misa photography, accessed April 27, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Pentax System 10 (1978). misa photography, accessed April 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Bongardt: Minolta 110 Zoom, 1976-79. In: Cameras and more. Retrieved April 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Minolta 110 Zoom SLR MkII. lomography.de, January 9, 2010, accessed April 27, 2020 (English).