{"id":19245,"date":"2017-11-18T08:36:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T16:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=19245"},"modified":"2017-11-18T08:36:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T16:36:26","slug":"blacks-sassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=19245","title":{"rendered":"Blacks Sassy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Back when there were camera stores seemingly everywhere there was a chain of stores in Canada called Blacks which was taken from the family name of the founders.\u00a0 In any case they were a large enough retailer to have cameras rebranded with their name from a variety of manufacturers.\u00a0 In this case I think this is another one of the variations of\u00a0a Matsushita that came as the Leica mini, The Minolta Freedom Escort, Olympus Trip AF and possibly others.\u00a0 So despite having the same internals as its siblings the Sassy went all out for style.\u00a0 And by style I mean what passed for style in 1992.<\/p>\n

When all is said and done though the camera has a 35mm f3.5 lens and the usual flash control features and works despite looking like it never lifts a finger with that gold trim.\u00a0 I loaded it up with some terribly out of date Konica 400 film which\u00a0leaves me with\u00a0a good excuse to try the camera again, if only I can find an early 1990’s themed costume party.<\/p>\n\n\t\t