Minolta's APS compact zoom — 22.5-45mm f/5.4-6.6, auto exposure, c.2000; APS film discontinued.
The Vectis 2000 was a compact zoom camera in Minolta's Vectis family, the range the company built around the Advanced Photo System (APS) film cartridge. Made in China around 2000, it sat among the later, budget-friendly point-and-shoot models of the line, well below the Vectis S-series interchangeable-lens bodies.
It carried a Minolta 22.5-45mm f/5.4-6.6 four-element zoom, autofocus, and a programmed auto-exposure system with shutter speeds from 8 seconds to 1/500. Metering was centre-weighted and film speeds from ISO 25 to 3200 were supported. The built-in flash offered auto, red-eye reduction, night-portrait and off modes, and the camera added date imprinting, title codes, focus hold and a self-timer in a 152g, 107x56x30mm body.
As with all Vectis models it offered APS conveniences — drop-in loading and selectable C/H/P print formats — in a pocketable shell, suiting casual family snapshots more than deliberate photography; the slow lens leans on flash indoors.
APS film was discontinued in 2011, so any Vectis 2000 can only shoot expired cartridges, and many are bought as display or collection pieces rather than shooters. If use is intended, confirm the camera powers up, the lens extends, and the cartridge door and flash work; expired APS stock is scarce and results are unpredictable.