Grew up with this camera, my parents had a Minox 35 to start with and went more auto/modern in the 90's. I accidentally shot the Mona-Lisa in 1994 using flash since my dad set the camera up and then handed it to me, but pushing through the crowds in the Louvre I managed to turn the camera off, resetting the flash. Anywho, came here for some insights after picking up my very own Big Mini BM-302 at a thrift store for 7,5 euro - clean lens, working battery, no scratches, manual, strap and pouch. Good stuff :)

I hope you are all having a wonderful Monday

Ricoh GRIII it is one of the best pocket camera ever made.

love my mju-ii! Thrifted this 35/2.8 a few years ago, always in my pocket, much better feeling looking back at social or daily events than scrolling through 100 iPhone photos.

I love a good film walk about! I need to make more videos like em.

My digital daily driver is one of the many pocketable digicams in my collection. But if we're talking film, the camera I find myself reaching for most of the time is my Olympus XA2. Super-pocketable, manual zone focusing, very nice results. Works with two LR44 cells, so no problem getting special or hard-to-find batteries for it. Anyway, great video, and of course I want to see another one with some photo samples taken with your Konica Big Mini! Cheers, //Rick

i went through that process when i had my daughter. I had to carry so many things that having a "nice" camera with me was just too much...so i tried so many things..after many cameras, i went with the Minox 35gt: fit in the pocket and you can have a decent flou for portraits. Love your channel : )

Yes, More film photos of a stray squirrel please. Seriously! Amateur shooter here, but I totally get your desire to shoot film after so much digital work. Slows one down in a good way.

What would be amazing is a video on commercial photography treatments!

You are 100% correct for not going with a Contax T2. I have one, its brilliant and takes amazing photos. However whenever i'm out with it, i end up being super careful given how expensive they have gotten. On the other hand, my Nikon L35AF2 has been everywhere with me. The pictures are as good as the T2 for 1/10 of the price.

I've stumble upon a half-frame Demi. Super fun, and given the 72 expsures (with a 36 exp roll), it really is just fun

My Canon EOS M6 ii with the 22mm pancake is fantasic.

Yes please, would love to see the shots you take with it (P.S. really enjoying your film content. I've also started shooting film purely for fun, and because you can't see what the images look like immediately there's less pressure to make something that 'looks good')

Back in the day, my friends raved about the Olympus Stylus 35mm camera. I've owned a couple Canon G Series and loved them. These days, I just use my iPhone, edit the images slightly as JPEG's and organize them into folders. It is easy to find an image and I can include them with my work images and share them.

Nice to see you shoot some film. Sure let's see how it works with some prints.

My every day carry is a Fujifilm Klasse point and shoot. It has a crazy sharp 38mm f/2.6 lens and is basically the same size as your Konica. It's awesome. It fits into pretty much any pocket I need it to and it just works. It's basically loaded with HP5 all the time. My alternate "light carry" is a film Leica CL with a Voigtlander 40mm Nokton f/1.2 lens in M mount. I also have a digital "light carry" which is a Canon EOS RP with an RF to M mount adapter and I use the same 40mm lens on both "light carry" cameras. I turn the focus peaking on with the RP and also have a 5x and 10x punch in with the viewfinder for critical focus. Both are awesome and the 40mm Nokton is a total dream of a lens. Of course, from there it goes into much bigger and heavier cameras for paid and personal "professional" work.

My all time favourite point and shoot is my Rollei 35 LED but only because it was the first camera I bought with my own money plus it paid the bills for two years before I bought my Olympus OM1. The easiest compact 35mm camera I have ever owned was an Olympus Myu ii. Super quick, great lens and very reliable. It was surprisingly robust given it’s totally plastic but it did the job.

Like this direction you're trying out..

Would love to see a video of a roll of film coming out of that Konica!

Great and practice advice! p.s. i like the "film grain" of this video

Very good pressure release., just got a Rollei 35S for the same reason

gotta love film point and shoots, even compared to iphones they’re really fast at taking pictures from idle, i have a clear edition Ricoh FF9SD that i impulse bought after seeing a photo of it online and it’s always near me

Bought mine in black an hour ago at the Frankfurt fleamarket, dirty cheap, 10 Euro, nearly mint condition (honestly: mint). Film still inside,. New battery out of the fridge (CR123 is cheap and easy to obtain). Great form factor, qualifiing for the permanent design collection at the MoMa imho.

Yes please!

When I got back into photography after a 20 year absence, my intention was to do black and white street photography so I could get back to my roots. I bought a couple of Contax G1s and 28mm, 45mm and 90mm lenses; obviously heftier and less portable than your point-and-shoot. (The 45mm f/2 Carl Zeiss Planar is apparently one of the finest lenses ever made, with "finest" being subjective.) Fast forward and I now have too many cameras. One that's fun to use, though, is my Fujifilm X100V. It's not nearly as mobile as yours but boy is it fun to shoot with.

I own this camera and got it for $3 at a thrift store. One of my best come ups.

Do you have a digital counterpart? I love the idea of a really pocketable camera that you always carry with you but buying + developing film is not cheap. Right now I'm using a Sony WX-830, it's even smaller (the size of a credit card aprox) and super light and the photos are fine, not super good but usable for everyday use. I've added a 1gb SD card so it's limited to 100 photos to "emulate" shooting film. I do like the developing + hanging aspect of film so I'd like to try a cheap point and shoot one day

Camera I throw in my pocket/bag every day is my Ricoh GR (2013 APSC)

Ricoh!

Nice!

Thank you, nice and funny :)

does it also take videos?

I recently got the big mini but the battery runs hot and drains instantly, which causes the camera to rewind back to 0. Have you seen this issue? Any ideas to fix?

another good canon rage finder is canon P, VI and VII with interchangeable lens. For sure I'm getting one. And nice focus zone very compact camera: the rollei 35. Sharp as F

So right - simple is smart. Still have an Olympus mju 1 35mm Film Camera in near mint condition with case. Must buy some film......

My only issue with the Big Mini is the autofocus is glacial. I prefer zone focus compacts of that era, because the AF was rarely up to speed, at least for street photography.

do i need a film for this?

Leica Z2X for me. Has a 35-75 zoom. Lovely pocketable plastic camera - and they go for cheap on ebay (though I was given mine).

A Yashica Electro 35 GX is also pocketable.

Be careful of the power ribbon attached to the film door on those; it's best to only open them a crack when loading film. Otherwise, the back and forth on the ribbon will cause it to break. Then you have a paperweight! Still, it is a nice camera. 🙂

Is your video point and shoot the Sony ZV1?

GAS strikes again 😂

So 35mm film is more convenient than iphone ?

Picked up a Olympus XA and Contax TVS for a 187 dollars so I can have a roll of color in one and a Roll of black and white in the other

Canon G7X is my pocketable „DSLR”. But most of the time it’s the iPhone…

Woah, 125£? I would have thought 12,5£ for a film compact camera 😮

Ok, forget the camera stuff … can we address the ‘weird squirrel which has wandered into the studio’?

Where's the emoticon for shaking head? Sorry sir, but - unless you were actually seeking a small, simple, lightweight camera that... shoots FILM (which, is arguably a LOT more faffing around than simply uploading a digital snap on your phone), then it seems to me that your reasoning/logic behind buying the Konica just doesn't make much sense. IOW, just use your phone for heaven's sake! That said, personally for a truly high quality (w/ wifi and far better sensor than the Konica - not to mention gives you the option of shooting RAW should you actually want to blow up those pics of your kiddies for a decent print on your wall), I'd recommend you look into one of the Sony RX line of compact digitals. Likewise neatly fits into your pocket and ~"200 grams", but w/ a 1″ sensor and a Zeiss lens. Not to mention um, you know... the option of VIDEO for that moment when your kiddie blows out the candles, no? ;) Then again, I'm biased. I've been slipping my beloved Sony RX100 in and out of my pocket - whilst traveling to dozens of foreign countries for years now.