Minolta's pocketable late-1990s APS compact — 22-66mm 3x zoom, 160g, auto exposure with subject modes.
The Minolta Vectis 3000 was a small compact zoom camera in Minolta's Vectis series for the Advanced Photo System, made in China in the late 1990s as the APS compact range expanded beyond the original 1996 launch models. Despite the similar name it is a different, smaller camera than the earlier Vectis 30.
Its lens is a 22-66mm 3x zoom at f/5.9-9.3, with autofocus set by half-pressing the shutter release and automatic exposure metered by a dual-segment meter over an EV 4-17 range at ISO 200. Shutter speeds run 8s to 1/500s, the flash recycles in 0.7s and reaches about 5m at wide angle with ISO 400 film, and modes include auto flash with red-eye reduction, landscape, night portrait, forced flash, self-timer and date/title imprinting. It accepts APS films from ISO 25 to 3200, works with the Vectis remote controller, weighs 160g and runs on a CR2 cell.
At 102mm wide and 160g it is a genuinely pocketable zoom compact, well suited to casual carry-everywhere snapshooting in its day; the slow lens means it leans on flash indoors, while the landscape and night-portrait modes cover the common tricky scenes without any settings knowledge.
APS film has been discontinued since 2011, so the Vectis 3000 can only expose expired stock and many examples sell as display pieces. It is fully battery-dependent: with a fresh CR2 fitted, check the camera powers on, the zoom and motor wind run, the flash recycles quickly, and the rear LCD segments all display; also confirm the electric film door opens after rewind.