This
is a very basic compact camera, focus free, only one speed. I got it
for next to nothing, so I tested it nevertheless. It was launched in
the 1990s. There are versions in different colours. Chinon made a
technically similar camera with a different design, the Auto GL-S. Both
cameras could also be listed on my plastic camera page, the limits
between the two catergories are fluent. There was already a Chinon
Monami in the early 80s, a much better camera.
Its main features are:
35mm
F4.5 focus-free lens, 3 elements in 3 groups, probably only 2 apertures, F4.5 and
F8 min. focus 1.3m Shutter speed
1/125
Size
126x66x38, Weight 220 gr.
Limited DX code for ISO 100 - 400 (only 2 contacts), auto wind, rewind via
switch, AE, flash
Front closed. The battery compartment is on the strap side (takes a CR123 battery). Back
view. Viewer and exposure warning lamp. Film type window.
Seen
from above.Flash OK lamp and mecanical film counter. Shutter button.
Seen
from below. Rewind switch.
Camera
open. The flash automatically swings out and flashes, if light is
insufficient. Flash guide no. is only 8/100 ISO. You can push the flash
in and hold, if you want the camera not to flash, but you risk
underexposure as there is only one speed.
Film
compartment open.
A stylish little camera, but too basic.
This
camera is incredibly basic. You slide it open and push the shutter,
that's all. There are no features. The only automatic
decision the camera does is between 2 apertures and flash on. The camera
has a
fixed focus lens. No night photos with only one shutter speed. Point and
shoot as
basic
as possible.
