Minolta Autopak 70
There are a lot of terrible plastic cameras that find their way into thrift store bins but sometimes there is the odd gem. The Minolta Autopak 70 falls more in the interesting pebble you turned over with your foot category. It has a 26mm f 3.5 4 element lens as well as a close up lens that slides in front. I didn’t have much success with that though as you can see bellow.
Despite its age it came with a working battery which is good because its uses a K battery which is pretty much unattainable. In the future I will need to build some type of replacement 4.5V but for now I have one.
With its electronic shutter the Autopak 70 has a speed range of 10 seconds to 1/330 second. If I had know this at the time I would definitely have tried a long exposure shot however doing that even with a tripod might be tricky as 110 cameras are mostly shaped like a rectangle with the shutter button on the far end for extra wobble when you press it. When done right though it produces and image that would be on par with a digital point and shoot camera from around the year 2000 but in a much more fun package.
