Chinon Handyzoom 5001  type_Darkroom Accessories battery-powered strobes for location work

battery-powered strobes for location work

Please note: technically this a "waterproof" camera

They were doing their best

Pushes (and pulls) well

and this one's pre-1919

Chinon Handyzoom 5001 &nbsptype_Darkroom Accessories battery-powered strobes for location workI have no idea what Chinon was thinking when they designed the Handyzoom 5001, except maybe "people seem to like that new Handycam thing." This is an unusual, bulky point and shoot with a camcorder style sideways grip, 35 70mm zoom lens (with buttons on the base?) and an "Auto Programmed Zoom" function that operates the zoom function automatically based on some unknown criteria (I can't imagine that late 80s AI was doing much in the way of