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The Olympus AF10 Super (Infinity Junior in the US) was released in 1987, a fully automatic 35mm film camera. It inherited the sliding cover design from the XA. Small and lightweight, with an integrated flash, it's smaller than the XA with flash attached.
Its main features are:

35mm F3.5 lens, 3 elements in 3 groups, autofocus with focus lock, min. focus 0,65m
Electronic shutter, 1/45-1/360s, flash ready and focus o.k. indication in the viewer window
Size 117x63x46,  Weight 210 gr. without battery
50-1600 ISO, automatic DX coding, self-timer, automatic film advance and (re-)spooling


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Closed and well protected, with its case.

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Back side. Film indication window.
Battery compartment on the edge to the left, takes one CR123 battery.

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Seen from above.
Flash charging lamp, self-timer button, film counter, shutter button.

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Seen from below.
Tripod socket.

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Cover open.
Flash mode slider under the lens.The camera has 3 flash modes: auto-flash (default), off, fill-in flash. If you slide the cover open, remember that  it's default auto set by the closing cover. Flash guide number ~16 (m/ISO 100)

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Camera film compartment open.

This camera is easy to use. Autofocus is responsive and works well. Putting a film is easy as well, open the back, tear the film leader a bit further, drop the film and that's it. The camera spools the film automatically. As with most point and shoot ultra compacts, auto flash is set at start. There is no mid roll respool button.

The AF10 Super is a good point and shoot camera. Sharp images, good autofocus, in a tiny little camera. When was released, it was one of the better models.

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