At the 1968 Photokina the prototype Electro-Zoom-X was shown to attendees. It was never marketed and only three samples where made. It resembles the later Minolta 110 Zoom SLR Mark II and the some 30 years later the digital SLR cameras with fixed zoom lens such as the Minolta Z2.
The lens is a 30-120mm (f3.5-16) zoom lens which is the equivalent of a 50-200mm zoom on a full-frame 35mm cameras. The camera is large, all white. It had both manual and automatic exposure modes. In auto-mode the shutter is set by the built-in TTL CDS meter from 2 seconds to1/500. Manual shutter speed settings of 30, X (125), and B. Film format was 12X18mm in regular Minolta 16mm cassettes. Film speeds from ASA 25 - 400. The viewfinder was a control-centre with indicators for the shutter speed, aperture, under- and over-exposure warnings and micro-prism focusing screen.
Last Updated on 26th May 2005