The Cabinet

The Full Vintage Point-and-Shoot Catalogue

154 analog point-and-shoot cameras from the 1970s through the 2000s — Olympus, Canon, Nikon, Yashica, Contax, Pentax, Ricoh, Konica, Minolta and more. Browse by brand, decade, film format or category to find your next 35mm, half-frame, APS or 645 compact.

What you'll find here

Every entry in the cabinet is a complete profile: specifications, era context, what the camera is good at today, fun facts, and a saved eBay search so you can see live listings. We cover premium compacts like the Contax T2 and Ricoh GR1, mid-tier rangefinders, bargain zoom compacts from the 1990s, and overlooked budget point-and-shoots that still take wonderful pictures.

Search the cabinet

Filter 154 cameras by brand, film format, decade and focal length.

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Film format

Decade

Focal length / zoom range

20mm – 200mm+

Cameras whose lens overlaps this range. Slide the right thumb to 200mm to include all longer telephotos.

Brand

Browse by decade

1970s cameras

The last decade of fully mechanical pocket cameras — rangefinders, scale-focus compacts and the first wave of programmed exposure.

1980s cameras

Autofocus arrives, motors take over film transport, and the modern point-and-shoot is born.

1990s cameras

The golden age of the premium compact: fast Zeiss and Leica glass, titanium bodies and the famous Mju-II.

2000s cameras

Film's final consumer chapter — late zoom compacts, dated LCDs and a handful of cult classics before digital wins.

Browse by film format

35mm

Standard 35mm film — still made by Kodak, Ilford and Fuji and supported by every lab.

35mm half-frame

Two frames per shot of standard 35mm, 72 exposures a roll — the diaristic format making a comeback.

645

Medium-format 6×4.5 — bigger negatives than 35mm without committing to a Hasselblad-sized kit.

APS

Advanced Photo System — a brief 1996 cartridge format. Out of production since 2011; expired stock only and very few labs left.

110

16mm cartridge format from 1972 — Lomography still produces fresh colour and B&W 110, and a handful of labs (or any C-41 lab willing to load the spool) will develop it.

Minolta Weathermatic-A

126

Kodak's 1963 Instamatic cartridge format. Out of production since the late 2000s — you're hunting expired stock and re-spooling 35mm into old 126 cartridges to shoot one today.