Best IQ 35mm pocket point/shot under 100 $

[yinyangbt]

I post it here ,because I don't refer necessarily to 35mm pocket rangefinders . Should be autofocus (point and shot) .I need the best image quality on 35mm in the smallest package possible . I own love and use a beautiful kiev IIa and a Fed 5B .But I would appreciate your comparisons with 35mm small RF couterparts , to help me making a decision So?

 

[ColSebastianMoran]

Often proposed: Olympus Stylus Epic (a.k.a. mju II) with f/2.8 lens. Usually just under $100. Probably best fit for your criteria.

Or any of the other Olympus non-zoom P&S cameras, all excellent, way cheap these days. Olympus Stylus with 35mm f/3.5 lens, for example. Auto-only. Recently bought one for $5.

Contax/Yashica T4 which has a nice 35mm f/3.5 Zeiss lens. Auto-only. Often over your budget.

Contax T2. Over budget.

For small rangefinders, I like the Yashica GX, 40mm f/1.7 lens, good viewfinder, conventional iris, aperture-preferred auto only, over your budget.

 

[btgc]

Probably Tiara series, if you don't mind metal body in cold weather and like 28mm focal length. Good lens, exp +- and MF.

p.s. there's subforum "Point and shoot"

 

[yinyangbt]

Probably Tiara series, if you don't mind metal body in cold weather and like 28mm focal length. Good lens, exp +- and MF.

p.s. there's subforum "Point and shoot"

Aha, sorry , didn't found it .Good suggestion , thanks , even it's an APS camera , I wanted 35mm.

 

[yinyangbt]

Often proposed: Olympus Stylus Epic (a.k.a. mju II) with f/2.8 lens. Usually just under $100. Probably best fit for your criteria.

Or any of the other Olympus non-zoom P&S cameras, all excellent, way cheap these days. Olympus Stylus with 35mm f/3.5 lens, for example. Auto-only. Recently bought one for $5.

Contax/Yashica T4 which has a nice 35mm f/3.5 Zeiss lens. Auto-only. Often over your budget.

Contax T2. Over budget.

For small rangefinders, I like the Yashica GX, 40mm f/1.7 lens, good viewfinder, conventional iris, aperture-preferred auto only, over your budget.

Thanks , very useful !

 

[lynnb]

Have you considered scale focus cameras? Can be faster in practice than autofocus. Cameras like the Minox 35 variants might be worth considering - very sharp Minotar lens.

 

[gavinlg]

Fairly sure the 35mm f2.8 zuiko in the MJU II is a better overall lens than my contax G 35mm f2 at equivalent apertures, and autofocus is overall quicker and more accurate than my G1. It's a really good little camera.

 

[serrada36]

Nikon L35AF. Great lens, good build quality, a little noisy, kind of a cult camera, a real bargain and usually very inexpensive $35-$60. However, I have seen prices going up on these. I like it better than my stylus epic and Yashica T4.

+1 on the Minox 35. Very fun, super small and silent camera. However, reliability can be an issue. Dust kills these cameras. I will say, my Minox 35ML has never had a problem.

In the end, whatever camera inspires you to go out and shoot will be the right one.

Have fun!

 

[bgb]

Olympus mju if you really want to put it in your pocket.

Olympus XA if you might consider a rangefinder camera rather than autofocus.

Olympus XA 2,3 or 4 scale focus

Olympus Trip if you don't mind the zone focus thing.

I found the XA too small for my xxl hands :bang: I really tried to love it but it's just too small ... but that won't stop me from buying another one!

 

[konicaman]

Konica Big Mini

 

[it'sawhat?]

I like the pentax point and shoots. Decent lens tough light and pocketable. Well jacket pocket worst case but they are tough, former boss used them on construction sites let guys who could break hammers use them without issue.

 

[zuikologist]

Small rf's: Olympus 35rc or SP if you are lucky, Vivitar 35ES, Konica S3.

P&S: Pentax UC1/Espio Mini, Konica Big Mini, Minolta AF-C, Nikon 600.

 

[pvdhaar]

Auto focus, best IQ, and smallest package possible, and less than $100?

Toss-up between a MjuII/Stylus-Epic and Mju-I/Infinity-Stylus:

MjuII pros & cons: smallest, f2.8 aperture, aspherical lens, 4 sec max shutter speed, really tiny viewfinder, sluggish AF.

MjuI pros & cons: small but not smallest, larger more comfortable viewfinder, faster AF, 1/15 sec max shutter speed, f3.5 aperture.

 

[btgc]

Fairly sure the 35mm f2.8 zuiko in the MJU II is a better overall lens than my contax G 35mm f2 at equivalent apertures, and autofocus is overall quicker and more accurate than my G1. It's a really good little camera.

Technically, there's no Zuiko lens in Mju compacts, it's marked as "Olympus lens/Large aperture lens". At that time Zuiko name weren't used to depict lenses of compact cameras. But agreed, not bad for compact camera 🙂

 

[thegman]

If you're OK with an RF, how about Rollei XF 35, or another type of Rollei 35 if you're OK with scale focus?

 

[Dwig]

If you can find one, the Nikon Nice Touch (aka AF600 and AF600QD). Very small, sharp 28mm lens, and AF. See the AF600QD entry on this page: http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/htmls/models/htmls/slr9294a.htm

Note, this is NOT the Nice Touch 2, 3, 4, 5 or Zoom which were lower quality spinoffs.