Konica Big Mini BM-201

a beauty among the modern compact cameras image by Alf Sigaro (Image rights)

The Konica "Big Mini" BM-201 is a fully automatic compact camera with built-in flash. A version to expose the date onto the film was available. Several flash modes are selectable, as well a macro mode for distances from 35 to 60 cm.

image by Vagn Sloth-Madsen (Image rights)

Specifications

image by Slobodan Miskovic (Image rights)

• Type: compact camera
• Manufacturer: Konica
• Year of launch: 1990
• Film: 35mm with speeds from ISO 25 to ISO 3200, automatic DX-code recognition
• Lens: Konica F/3.5 35mm, four elements in four groups
• Viewfinder: bright frame direct view albada finder, with control LEDs
• Metering: CdS, center-weighted, controls exposure settings automatically
• Focusing: infrared non-scan active autofocus, focus lock at current value by pressing shutter release halfways
• Film advance: automatic
• Display: LCD
• Flash: reaching as far as 3.8 metres with film speed ISO 100
• Weight: 188g without CR123A battery
• Size: 115×63×34mm

Links

• instructions at Michael Butkus Jr.'s Orphan Cameras
• Konica Big Mini at Sylvain Halgand's www.collection-appareils.fr (in French)