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Konica Big-Mini BM-201

A charity shop find that i came across about a month ago. As you probably know, i am not a point and shoot camera fan so it was a buy-to-sell buy in order to further fund my passion for cameras.   This camera comes from the early '90s, and it was targeted at the same lucrative sector of the higher-end point and shoot compact cameras. The big mini resulted in good sales and there are a number of different versions depending on whether they have data-back or not and different aesthetics. All of them share the same very nice lens, a 35 f/3.5 consisting of four elements in four groups. There is also an upper Big-Mini F with a 35 f/2.8 lens but it is not that common and it usually fetches a lot more. The camera is a bit on the bigger side and the noise that it makes while switching on and taking the picture is probably the biggest disadvantage. Both my EOS 5 and Dynax 9xi are far more quiet than this little monster. Another thing that left me wond...