Minolta's fixed-focus 35mm snapshot — 35mm f/4.5 lens, motor wind, flash, AA power.
The Memory Maker was one of Minolta's simplest 35mm compacts, a fixed-focus point-and-shoot from the late 1990s aimed at buyers who wanted motorised convenience without autofocus-era prices. A later Memory Maker III variant is a separate model with its own listing history.
It uses a fixed-focus 35mm f/4.5 lens sharp from about 1.5m to infinity, an automatic shutter and motorised film winding, with a built-in flash for interiors. Film speed is set by DX coding between ISO 100 and 400, a CdS cell drives a red low-light warning LED, and power comes from two AA batteries. It measures 125x70x49mm and weighs about 175g.
With no focusing system at all it is about as simple as film photography gets — point, press, and the wind-on happens by itself — suiting beginners, kids and party duty; close subjects and dim distant scenes sit outside its comfort zone.
These sell for very little, so condition matters more than completeness: fit fresh AAs and confirm the shutter, wind-on and flash all operate, check the battery bay for corrosion, and make sure the film door shuts light-tight. AA power makes it one of the easier 1990s compacts to keep running.