The Minolta Freedom Zoom 150 panorama/date camera is one of the world's smallest 35mm cameras with a full 4x zoom lens. It weighs only 6.7 ounces, yet it offers an array of automatic features for trouble-free snapshooting. Film transport is fully automatic. After loading the film, the Minolta Freedom Zoom 150's back cover remains securely locked until the film is rewound into the cartridge, thereby preventing the film from being ruined by accidentally opening the back cover.
The Freedom Zoom 150 features a passive-type autofocus system, which uses approximately 900 focusing steps to ensure razor-sharp results. This autofocus system is similar to the kind used in single-lens reflex cameras and can focus accurately even on distant subjects, mirror images, or subjects beyond a windowpane. Other features include an automatic six-mode flash, automatic exposure, and a self-timer.
The quartz data feature imprints the date or time onto each photo. Data imprinting can be switched on or off whenever you desire and is useful for cataloging photographs or keeping photo records of birthdays, weddings, graduations, and other important events. A panorama mode selector switch allows you to take both standard and panoramic pictures on the same roll of film.
Product Description:
This pocketsize powerhouse gives you amazing photographic potential. With its high-performance autofocus and autoexposure systems and aspheric lens optics, the Freedom Zoom 150 provides beautifully crisp, high-contrast images from wide-angle to telephoto and covers everything from scenic landscapes to full-frame portraits to detailed close-ups. The Freedom Zoom 150 is as small and light as existing 35mm-format zoom compact cameras and can slip easily into a shirt pocket. This small size and maximum portability is the result of years of Minolta's research and development with state-of-the-art compact optical designs.The Freedom Zoom 150 has been downsized to the absolute minimum via the use of a new compact optical system for a low-profile three-cylinder lens barrel, plus super-efficient unit design and component placement, a geared film drive motor, and a thin protective aluminum front shell. The key to the Freedom Zoom 150's outstanding compactness lies in the compact lens system. In addition to a new zoom design, two double-sided aspheric elements are used to reduce the overall number of lens elements. Precision alignment of the lens elements creates a superior compact lens offering superb image quality with excellent contrast. Additionally, the thin viewfinder optical system features a compact Dach prism inversion system for optimum clarity. The use of a thin, protective aluminum front shell plus a geared motor in the film transport mechanism also contribute to the camera's small size.This camera is supplied with a roll of film.
Minolta Freedom Zoom 150 Date 35mm Camera