Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/05/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>I'm anxious to hear your impressions of this camera as I have been >concidering buying a compact-35, and the Mini-Zoom was on the list. [...] I've owned a Leica Minizoom for about a year and a half. It's taken many dozens of rolls of film for me. It takes fantastically good pictures for a relatively inexpensive camera, the results are generally indistinguishable from my Leica M and Nikon SLR negatives. It has just enough options to allow one adequate control for the purpose of this type/price camera, and the lens is a flexible 35:70mm zoom. It's not a very fast lens, the recommended film is 200 speed. I usually use 200 color neg and 400 b&w in it. The metering is more than adequate for transparencies as well, but I don't shoot transparencies. The only one of your six requirements that it might fail is the compactness. It's just a tad large for a breast pocket. I keep it in its leather case, carried on the belt of my small belt pack. It can fit in a pocket, it would simply be a bit too bulky for my taste. Godfrey