An Outing With A Konica Z-up 28W

Analog Diary: Film photography favorites, images with a Konica Z-up 28W, a sturdy 35mm point-and-shoot film camera with a 28-56mm f/3.5-6.6 wide-angle zoom lens, perfect for street, landscape, and architectural photography.

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The autofocus Konica Z-up 28W is oversized for your pants pocket but will fit in your camera bag. It has a very useful 28-56mm F3.5~6.6 zoom lens protected by a built-in UV filter and a very quiet shutter, and is one of the fastest autofocus systems I have used recently.

The zoom functions through a push button on the top panel of the camera. With one push of the button, the lens zooms out, and at its end, zooms back in. While exposure is automatic, I do not even know the shutter speed range or the lens's aperture range.

Camera mode selection, for Auto Flash, Flash On, Flash Off, Self-Timer with Flash On, Infinity Focus with Flash Off, and Macro Mode with Flash On, is via a Mode selector button, and the setting is displayed on the LCD panel of the shutter release button cluster.

Konica Z-up 28W

A nice feature of the camera is the Snap mode, which sets the camera to a focal length of 28mm and a focal distance of 2.75 meters, and the film advances to two frames per second. When the Snap mode is coupled with the Self-Timer with Flash On mode, the Z-up 28W will set the shutter off twice, after a ten-second delay, and then three seconds later.