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My "Little" Minolta

Started Jan 21, 2019 | Photos
Hike Pics
Hike Pics Senior Member • Posts: 2,917
My "Little" Minolta
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When this little fellow was offered on Ebay for very cheap I had to grab it. I must admit, I really like the style of this model. It reminds me of old travel trailers and campers back in the 1960s. The pleated light blue top and chrome bottom is spiffy! It is very simple with Auto ISO and other menu settings. It does have one issue though.....every time the camera is turned on it pops up a "reformat" screen and locks the camera until "Yes" is pressed. It writes to the 256mb card just fine. In order to bypass the screen I have to turn the mode switch down to the green arrow (view) and back up to Still mode. And it can overexpose quite a bit on sunny days.

But it's still a really cool little camera!

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neilt3
neilt3 Veteran Member • Posts: 3,008
Re: My "Little" Minolta

A few nice shots , thanks for posting .

Check out the Minolta challenge here ;   https://www.dpreview.com/challenges/Challenge.aspx?ID=13667

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ParangMehta
ParangMehta Regular Member • Posts: 128
Re: My "Little" Minolta

Very pretty camera, and the pictures have nice colours. Good buy!

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FrancoD Forum Pro • Posts: 19,261
Re: My "Little" Minolta

Hike Pics wrote:

When this little fellow was offered on Ebay for very cheap I had to grab it. I must admit, I really like the style of this model. It reminds me of old travel trailers and campers back in the 1960s. The pleated light blue top and chrome bottom is spiffy! It is very simple with Auto ISO and other menu settings. It does have one issue though.....every time the camera is turned on it pops up a "reformat" screen and locks the camera until "Yes" is pressed. It writes to the 256mb card just fine. In order to bypass the screen I have to turn the mode switch down to the green arrow (view) and back up to Still mode. And it can overexpose quite a bit on sunny days.

But it's still a really cool little camera!

Another  version of the Sanyo VPC S1.

Sanyo made about half of all compact digital cameras at the time.

Suilven New Member • Posts: 6
Re: My "Little" Minolta

Great little camera. I had one which I used to take everywhere and it never let me down. Nice colours and I loved the simplicity of running off two AA batteries. I wish I'd kept it now, if only as a spare to keep in the car.

I use an Olympus Tough (TG-3) as my go-anywhere holiday camera now. It took a fair amount of effort to learn how to get the best out of it, but now I know its quirks, it's good fun.

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