I went in to this project figuring the zooms would be my least favorite cameras. The Minolta Freedom Zoom 150 helped to reinforce this pre-conception. Frankly, it's just about everything I hate about a certain "consumer camera" philosophy. The idea seems to be to stretch the specs beyond anything you have a hope of implementing well for the sake of bragging rights and market share. This camera also stands as an excellent argument for digital point and shoot cameras vs film.
The problem seems mostly to lie in the absurd lens. 37.5 to 150mm. Stuffing a lens like that in to a camera this small that has to cover 35mm film is just silly. Hell, it even looks silly. As I said, makes a strong argument for digital, since the small sensor size compared to 35mm film actually allows for decent sized/quality of zoom lens.
Not much I'd care to share from this camera. Really nothing spectacularly good or bad came out of it, except that I found it generally unsharp at 150mm. This might have been focusing error, or just camera motion from a slow lens, even on a bright day with 400 iso film???
Best telephoto shot I came up with. Not bad, and certainly not something I could get with a 35mm prime...but it was about the best out of several I took.
Not sure about the zoom setting on this one, not long, not short...also, not sharp.
I shouldn't be too hard on this camera, I'd frankly be a bit shocked if I found I loved any camera of similar design.
We'll have to call this my first tosser.
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