A modern reusable full-frame compact with a three-element glass lens, made by RETO under Kodak license.
The lens is a 25mm f/9.5. Focus is set by hand to one of two zones, 0.5 to 1.5 meters or 1.5 meters to infinity.
The shutter is fixed at 1/100 second, so away from bright light the flash does much of the work. It has a guide number of about 8, an auto setting, a manual on and off toggle, and a red-eye reduction light.
Film winds on and rewinds automatically. A switch on the front, just below the shutter button, sets double exposure, limited to two shots per frame.
Tips and observations from people who have used this camera.
I bought this hoping for something Contax T2-ish and it really isn't close. Think of it as a disposable camera you can reload: fixed f/9.5, fixed 1/100 shutter, two-zone focus, no meter at all. Bright sun is fine, anywhere else you're relying on the flash or getting nothing. The flash is the most annoying part. There's auto, auto with red-eye reduction, on, and on with red-eye reduction, which is four modes for something that should just be on or off, and it's confusing to keep track of on the little screen. Worse, sometimes it just doesn't fire when it clearly should. That's the frustrating bit, because the flash is doing most of the work on a camera with no aperture or shutter control. What it does have going for it: it's new, so you're not worrying about light seals, fungus, or a body that's been sitting in a drawer for thirty years. And it's genuinely small. At $99 you can get better pictures from plenty of used compacts, but if you actually want pocketable, you have to step up a lot. An Olympus Mju will beat it on quality but it's bulkier and the prices keep climbing, and most cheap old point-and-shoots are chunky too. So it comes down to whether small matters more to you than the photos.
