Minolta's APS Big Finder compact — fixed 24mm lens, AF, CR2 power; APS film discontinued.
The Vectis 100BF was a fixed-lens autofocus compact in Minolta's Vectis line for the Advanced Photo System, its BF suffix denoting the extra-large 'Big Finder' viewfinder. It sat at the entry end of the range, below the Vectis zoom models, alongside a manual-focus 100 MF sibling.
It used a fixed 24mm all-glass lens with autofocus and a magnified reverse-Galilean bright-frame finder, and accepted IX240 cartridges of ISO 100-400. The flash provided autoflash, manual fill, cancel and night-portrait modes with red-eye reduction, an LCD reported battery state, frame count and mode, and continuous drive advanced film at one frame per second. It ran on a CR2 cell, measured 111x64x39mm and weighed about 160g.
The oversized finder makes it one of the easier APS compacts to frame with, and the wide fixed lens suits snapshots and group shots; there is no zoom and little user control, keeping it firmly in beginner point-and-shoot territory.
APS film production ended in 2011, so the 100BF can only shoot expired cartridges and many are sold for display or parts. Buyers intending to run film should test power-up, flash charge and the cartridge door with a fresh CR2 before paying more than shelf-ornament money.