Anyone shooting a truly Point-and-Shoot Camera?

I use a Fuji Natura Black almost exclusively. Sometimes I'll throw in a Konica Big Mini in my bag if the feeling strikes me.

Fuji Natura Black, ISO1600 (NP mode).

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I tried several times (Natura Classica, XA, Stylus Epic, GR-D etc), but in the end, they were all sold. Closest thing to true point and shoot I use is IIIf + Elmar 50/3.5. As small as many P&S, can do pan/scale focus, ballpark exposure with no fooling AE. Quite possibly the best compact P&S if you are into 50mm. I'll take Barnack Leica or Rollei 35 (owned and loved and died) over "true" point and shoot for simplicity and fool-proof full (yet easy) manual operation.
 
I use an Olympus Stylus Epic. It's a great camera. The 35mm 2.8 lens is fantastic and it hardly ever misfocuses. The thing is tiny too. It's the camera I take out when I don't want to carry a camera around. Here's some photos I've shot with it all on expired Kodak Gold 200.

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I always shoot the Olympus Stylus Epic with either Fuji Superia 800 or Kodak TMax 3200 when I go to bars and restaurants.
 
Using a Klasse S more and more, great camera, might consider swapping it for the smaller Natura though. Also, the Natura has a physical switch for the flash, which I find very attractive.
 
ok , so how do i load film into stylus epic?


EDIT: figured it out,apparently i'm not used to this automatic mumbo jumbo :)
 
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True P&S ?

True P&S ?

If you want a true P&S then look at the Olympus XA1 which has no battery, no zone focusing and all you can do is use a coin to set 100ASA or 400ASA, open and close the front cover and push the shutter button. You even have to load and unload it manually!

As far as I know the lens is set at f/4 and is a D Zuiko, so four elements somehow, around the lens is a solar power cell for the exposure and I guess it's a needle trap set up. At a glance it looks like any of the XA range but the shutter button isn't flat and red but a sticking up bit of round black plastic. And a red blob appears in the view-finder if there's not enough light. Plus you can take the A9 flash off it and throw it away easily.

Only trouble is finding a brochure for mine.

The real trouble is that I can never resist looking in charity shops and wasting a few pennies or even as much a two or three pounds on their old compacts and compact zooms. So I've had almost everyone that ever existed and given most back for someone else to play with. My favourites have to be the Konica A4 and Z-up's, Kodak T550, any Olympus XA or µ range (especially the digital µ 300 and µ 400), the large Canon SureShots, the Minolta Vectis range.

But as I go into the list, it gets obvious that we are talking about cameras with auto-focus and soi-disant intelligent metering and AF etc. So where do we stop and what do we allow. If zone focussing then why not "P" or "A" modes? And where does that brilliant piece of pure basic camera the Smena/Cosmic Symbol fit? Does the back-light switch on the XA and XA3 disqualify it? Or the superb spot metering of the µ-I and µ-II?

It's all fun, fun, fun when trying to decide on what to classify a camera as...

Regards, David

PS and what about the Olympus 35ED which is a basic P&S (P mode) with a coupled range-finder?
 
btgc said:
Sorry for being nerd, though I think Mju-I doesn't have spot metering.
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You're probably right as I am relying on memory and we all know what that can do; or rather not do...

All I can remember is that the self timer was strange in that one button had to be held down whilst the shutter was pressed and - not so sure here - didn't it say "FILL IN" on the little screen, when using fill-in flash? If only they'd all do that.

Regards, David
 
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