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Konica Big Mini BM-302 is a compact 35mm film point-and-shoot with an auto close-up feature. The camera's sharp 𝒇3.5 35mm lens is supplemented with an auto-variable flash system for those subdued-light situations. I love BM-302's clean design, operational simplicity, and the results it creates, including those taken with the close-up (macro) lens. The Konica Big Mini series is a premium line-up from Konica. These cameras are known for their sleek design while still being decent performers. The last of the line-up was the Konica Big Mini F. As the name suggests, the Big Mini F has a wider aperture of f2.8 compared to f3.5 of its predecessors. Konica Big Mini BM-201's design must've been an inspiration for one of the smallest and most capable point-and-shoot cameras ever made: Minolta TC-1. Launched six years prior, Big Mini featured a sharp 𝒇3.5 lens in a handsome package complete with autofocus, autoexposure, and a very simple yet effective selection of compensation and flash modes. Konica Big Mini F is the top-tier and the latest film camera in the series of mid-level Japanese point-and-shoots. It features a fast 35mm 𝒇2.8 lens, quiet motors, and an updated shell design. This Big Mini sports relatively new mechanics, optics, and electronics, having been launched in 1997 (it's only 16 years old!)

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A quarter century later, and with a little help from the internet hype industrial complex, the Konica Big Mini (model BM-201 in particular) has been revived and deified by the point-and-shoot community as a sleeper camera with incredible Konica optics - optics reportedly good enough for legendary photographer Robert Frank. The Konica Big Mini was released in 1990 and has set itself a place in modern camera history with its ease of use and fantastic optics. The lens on this camera can really give the bigger boys a run for its money. The Big Mini comes with a fantastic 35mm f3.5 Konica lens, which by rights this camera should not have. May 28 Take a look at Part I: Shooting the Konica Big Mini BM-201 [Review with Sample Shots]. It's been three years since I first posted about arguably the most affordable point-and-shoot film camera: the Konica Big Mini 201. Konica Big Mini - This shot shows fine edge to edge sharpness Overall, I like the Konica Big Mini. It does a solid job and if you see one for a good price, I recommend it as a decent point-and-shoot option. I guess you might ask whether you should choose a Konica Big Mini or an Olympus Mju II.

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How I Used It. Konica Big Mini (BM-201) and a roll of Fuji Pro 400H which I didn't use for any of the photos below. The Big Mini is shaped like a bar of soap. It's very sleek, with power and shutter buttons on top as well as several buttons on the back for mode, timer, and rewind. The buttons, lens, and flash are all flush with the body. Introduced in 1990, the Konica "Big Mini" BM-201, as well as the succeeding models in the series, remain to be a popular point-and-shoot choice for compact camera fans up to the present. Konica Big Mini © Alfred via Wikimedia Commons, Image used under Creative Commons license 1 bid $13.17 shipping 6d 18h Konica Big Mini A4 35mm f/3.5 Point & Shoot Film Camera-GOOD $1.25 2 bids $8.25 shipping 3d 1h READ! [Near MINT] Konica Big mini BM-301 Point & Shoot Film Camera From JAPAN $149.99 $34.99 shipping 11 watching Konica Big Mini BM-302 Big Mini F Specs History The Konica Big Mini F is probably the best model released for Konica's Big Mini line, and the last one with a fixed lens. In parallel, there were famous models with zoom lenses like the Big Mini BM-310Z or BM-610Z, which were never favorites among enthusiasts. These cameras were more intended for the consumer market.

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The Konica Big Mini BM-302 is a stylish point-and-shoot camera. Let me modify that statement a bit. The BM-302 is a very stylish point-and-shoot. But style being so much a matter of taste, that alone doesn't account for its favourite-camera status. No, for me, this camera succeeds because it manages a tricky balancing act. The button takes the Konica Big Mini through modes as follows: auto flash, flash on, flash off, flash off +1.5ev and flash off -1.5ev. Very simple, but actually that covers many of the likely eventualities for exposure compensation when using a compact. A positive start then. Well, yes, apart from the difficulty in pressing the Konica Big Mini.