Minolta AF-E

image by Uwe Kulick (Image rights)

with TW35 telephoto and wide-angle accessory optics modules. image by Uwe Kulick (Image rights)

In 1984 Minolta presented its fully automatic compact camera Minolta AF-E. If featured a 1:3.5 f=35mm Minolta lens, focused by an active infrared autofofus system. It used DX-coded 35mm film with speeds ISO 100 to 1000. It had automatic exposure and automatic motorized film transport with a mechanical automatic frame counter. The built-in flash was used automatically in low-ligh situations by the CdS-controlled exposure system. The camera had a reverse Galilean right frame viewfinder.

Maginon offered the TW35 set of accessory optics modules which included one module to reduce and another to enhance focal-length of the camera lens. The modules comprised add-on optics for lens, viewfinder and autofocus.