Is There Really Such a Thing as a Pocketable Camera?

[jsrockit]

The Ricoh GRIIIX is a 40mm equivalent angle of view lens.

Well, in 2019 (my post you quoted was from 2019), it did not exist yet. However, the minute I could get my hands on one I did and I love it. It's a great pocketable camera with a normal lens. I think the popularity of the GR cameras and the X100 / X-E cameras in the last year has to have manufacturers thinking about revisiting this market again. The aforementioned cameras are generally sold out. It is clear that not everybody wants a big DSLR shaped mirrorless camera.

 

[Alpsman]

My Zeiss Super Ikonta 6x9 fits in my rear pocket ;-)

 

[Peter_S]

The Contax T fits into the back pockets of my pants just fine - and is capable of really good images.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Low temperatures mean less chemical activity, so battery life is longer.

That's also why it's harder to start a car in very low temperatures - the energy is lower, plus the thicker oil in a car that's been sitting overnight

10F-30F is -1C - 12C.

My shooting experience with digital camera is between - 28 C and +35 C.

Not sure what cars analogies have to do with photography forums, but if digital camera will be kept outside overnight at -12C, it is going to be dead in the morning. No cold start at all.

To more practical to photography experience, pocketable or else digital cameras will lasts longer in freezing weather if they are kept closer to the body heat, but not too close.

Again, from my practical photography experience, batteries lasts longer (while in use) in mild weather between +10 and +20 C.

For cars under very low temperatures you need to use appropriate oil and battery which holds the charge.
But "very low" temperature is totally variable term these days, with most forums participants been south from Canada border and England, Central Europe 🙂
I have started driving in Lada, at the country of origin. No Varta and no Pennzoil. To start in -25C overnight, we would pour glass of gasoline into the oil reservoir, while engine is still warm after parking for overnight.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

The Contax T fits into the back pockets of my pants just fine - and is capable of really good images.

Contax T looks like Minox 35 based, which has worthy lens.

 

[Peter_S]

Contax T looks like Minox 35 based, which has worthy lens.

Got the T ages ago for 150 EUR because the film counter is non-functional. It has been working otherwise since then and I even prefer it over the T3 in some ways. Fitting in a pocket is one reason!

 

[hap]

Contax T looks like Minox 35 based, which has worthy lens.

Is that a banana in your pants or just a Contax T?

 

[Benjamin Marks]

I know that several in the thread have said that they want a camera-camera and not to use a cell phone, but in practice the entire planet is carrying a reasonably high quality phone in their pockets: their cell phones. Not my choice either (or not my first choice anyway), but there it is. The camera-camera market (pocketable or not) has been shrinking for almost the entire 21st century. So the answer is: yes.

 

[Jamie Pillers]

I had a couple of the Canon Elph cameras in the early days of digital. Those files still look good today. And the Elphs are tiny.

 

[jsrockit]

The camera-camera market (pocketable or not) has been shrinking for almost the entire 21st century. So the answer is: yes.

Actually it is on its way back up again...

 

[zane0777]

...To start in -25C overnight, we would pour glass of gasoline into the oil reservoir, while engine is still warm after parking for overnight.

My father drove a Model A Ford in the 1940s and 50s. Before trying to start it in winter he would shove a large tray of hot charcoal under the engine to warm it up. I'm not sure which technique is worse!

 

[santino]

The best way is to not switch off your engine at all in winter. Thats at least what a guy from Siberia told me, they don’t switch off their Ladas etc off at all during winter.
Another way would be to fill your cars radiator with hot water from your house‘s boiler e.g. 😁

 

[raydm6]

The best way is to not switch off your engine at all in winter. Thats at least what a guy from Siberia told me, they don’t switch off their Ladas etc off at all during winter.
Another way would be to fill your cars radiator with hot water from your house‘s boiler e.g. 😁

There is a pre-owned auto business near me in the USA which sells - among foreign and domestics - used Lada, Moskvitch, UAZ, and ZAZ (Ukraine).

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These cars are so cute 🙂

 

[Ko.Fe.]

There is a pre-owned auto business near me in the USA which sells - among foreign and domestics - used Lada, Moskvitch, UAZ, and ZAZ (Ukraine).

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These cars are so cute 🙂

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I remember how heavy smell was on Moscow roads during times they were prevalent. Over years number of cars increased, but air become smell free due to increased import and local assembly lines of modern brands. Those have very primitive engines and exhaust. Lada was popular in Finland and Moskvitch earlier on. But like in Canada in late nineties they can't sell them anymore due to emissions standards. Which is good. Old cars are cute, but better to be kept away from public roads.

 

[hap]

I forgot....I have a Fuji Natura . it's very pocketable and F1.9. Very good camera I just haven't used it lately. fuji came out with a color emulsion ISO 1600 supposedly for use with Natura but also other cams. Not certain its really different than something like superia 1600. All great for low light shooting.....AF, Program, flash, etc.

 

[largedrink]

I picked up these yesterday from an ex-Ricoh and Fuji camera repairman. The Ricoh is full frame and the Fujica half frame. The Fuji fits easily into my jeans pocket. It's very well made, heavier than the Ricoh which feels plasticky by comparison.

 

[fraley]

Petri Color 35 -- the poor man's Rollei

Petri Color 35 (1968)

This is a Petri Color 35, a compact 35mm point and shoot camera made by Petri Camera K.K. starting in 1968. The Petri Color 35 was the first in a series of Pe

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[largedrink]

Petri Color 35 -- the poor man's Rollei

Petri Color 35 (1968)

This is a Petri Color 35, a compact 35mm point and shoot camera made by Petri Camera K.K. starting in 1968. The Petri Color 35 was the first in a series of Pe

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I have a Petri Color 35 as well, and ran a film through it a couple of weeks ago. Really nice camera with all the information in the viewfinder. Though I did find my eyebrows would get tangled up with the focus wheel occasionally!

 

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[zeitoun]

I have answered this question about 35 years ago when I landed a used Rollei 35 S. It has been in my pocket nearly every day ever since. I would say it is "pocketable"