Point and Shoot

Nikon L35 AFD x Japan Camera 200 ISO Colour 35mm Film

At some point in the summer I stumbled upon this little Nikon in a thrift shop. It looked funky enough and had a big time 80’s vibe to it. I snapped it up for $8 and was on my way, not knowing if it was going to work or not.

Minolta Hi-Matic AF2 x Lomochrome Metropolis

Earlier this summer I found a Nikon AFD compact rangefinder camera at a thrift shop and quickly fell in love with it. It started me down this path of looking into all of these quirky, funky and retro looking lates 7o’s and early 80’s compact point and shoot cameras. I will get into the AFD soon but today we are looking at another little rangefinder I stumbled upon; the Minolta Hi-Matic AF2.

I seem to recall one of my professors in college making a comment that has stuck with me until this day. He was talking about cameras, gear and all the things that you think you need to make great photos when he paraphrased a famous photographer (I apologize that I can’t remember who it was).Continue reading “Point and Shoot”