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This camera is the more busted cousin of the Fuji Zoom Cardia Super 115 I’ve talked about previously. The full name of this camera is the Fuji Zoom Cardia Super 115 MR, but I haven’t figured out how it differs from the regular Fuji Super 115 (which seems to be a rebranded Samsung camera), or what “MR” even stands for. If you’d like to learn more about this camera’s features, I recommend that you check out the Fuji Zoom Cardia Super 115 blog post....

The Olympus AF-1 Twin gives off the vibe of a slightly austere older sibling – built to withstand all sorts of conditions (supposedly weatherproof), and not the type to give you a lot of choices. You get to choose between a 35mm or 70mm lens with the biaxial system (i.e. no zoom), and there are two separate buttons for flash and continuous/self-timer controls. I take note of this because some cameras have incredibly convoluted steps for disabling flash – the Fuji Zoom Cardia Super 115 requires you to press the flash button 6 times before you can take a photo without flash....

[updated 2 Jul with an additional photo] I got the Raynox ME-606 in a random Hard-Off junk section (more precisely, Hard-Off at Hirata in Matsumoto) for the princely sum of 300 yen, with no real guarantees about whether it would work. This was before I wisened up and started bringing my own batteries for thrifting cameras, so all I knew was that it had corroded battery contacts and a battery flap that wouldn’t shut....

The strange thing about cameras is that brands keep calling the same thing by different names. Why can’t we just have a unique identifier for each thing that exists? It’s like how the Canon EOS 750D is also called the Rebel T6i (see Wikipedia). The Konica TZ-635 is no different - It appears to be called the Konica Zoom FR 635 too (like in this Youtube video by Meracasee or this random ebay listing)....

TL;DR: These two cameras are the same. If you can’t find manuals for the Fuji, use this Samsung one: https://cameramanuals.org/samsung/samsung_af-slim-zoom-e-s.pdf (Credits to Michael Butkus Jr, who’s been archiving camera manuals since 1997 with https://butkus.org/chinon/index.html) What ever happened? I had thrifted some cameras, and was unable to find any manuals for the Fuji Zoom Cardia Super 115 I got. It has a ton of modes like Fuzzy, Portrait, and something that looked like a self-timer and interval shooting....