The Pentax IQ Zoom 120Mi

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Nicely built and designed compact 35 mm automatic from the '90s with lots of features to compete with the others marketed around then. These were a bit pricey for me then so my pocket camera was a Trip 35, at thrift store prices ($4.50) now I get to play with one.

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As usual, test runs to save $$ involve whatever junk film at hand, ISO 400 C41 stuff crossed in D76 1:1.

Lens good, full zoom..

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Half way, and a crop..
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Full wide at the fabric store, can it see in the dark? Well, pretty good.
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Problems with low light auto focus unless I had a finger over the sensor..
Focus override to infinity on one of the many buttons though.
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Wasn't a great fan of these expensive critters then, even a good one like this was fooled too easily. This one will sit on the shelf as a representitive of it's type and definitely will go out again when I setup for C41 processing.
 
Pretty cool! My 9 year old daughter uses my old Pentax IQ Zoom EZY-80. Our family never really retired it after all these years.
 
I like the fabric store shot, and your last one. Just shows what interesting photos you can get with some older cameras.
 

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