Konica AiBORG
AiBORG, lens cover open by Skagman |
The Konica AiBORG super zoom 35-105 is a large, very distinctive (if not downright eccentric) 35mm point-and-shoot viewfinder camera. It made in Japan by Konica, who described it as "futuristic, black, ellipsoidal." at its introduction in 1991[1]. The heavy body is black plastic, with rubberised grips on the ends, and a subtle glitter effect on the front panels. An LCD panel on the top shows the camera settings, and a further small LCD display in the back shows the date settings. The AiBORG has a 3x zoom lens - with a hinged transparent plastic cover, motor drive and built-in flash. There is no facility for external flash.
The back features a large zoom switch and small coloured button controls for flash and date setting, and several labelled in an inscrutable non-standard manner. The viewfinder eyepiece has a rotary dioptric adjuster carefully placed to be on the cheekbone when in use, leaving little room for a finger to adjust it.
- Lens: Konica Zoom, 35-105mm
- Power: 2CR5 6v battery
- ↑ New York Times article, 24 November 1991
Links
- User Manual in Japanese, on KonicaMinolta.com
- Photo of AIBORG with lens cover closed, on Flickr by David Kovaluk