What is the cheapest used Minolta Weathermatic 35DL in the UK?

The cheapest used Minolta Weathermatic 35DL currently listed is £48.95 at eBay, based on 4 listings compared across 1 UK retailers.

How many used Minolta Weathermatic 35DL are for sale in the UK?

There are currently 4 used Minolta Weathermatic 35DL listings available across 1 UK retailers on UsedLens, updated daily.

Used Minolta Weathermatic 35DL for Sale — From £49

£48.95 Low price

£107.64 High price

4 Listings

1 Retailers

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Great for: beach and pool film photography hiking and sailing lomography-style fun collecting

The Minolta Weathermatic 35DL, launched in 1987, is the instantly recognisable bright-yellow submersible 35mm compact — a proper waterproof camera rated to 5 metres depth, descended from Minolta's earlier Weathermatic 110.

It shoots full-frame 35mm through a switchable dual lens offering 35mm and 50mm focal lengths ('DL' = dual lens), with autofocus, a built-in flash, DX film-speed reading, motorised advance and rewind, oversized gloved-hand controls, a sports-finder option and a chunky sealed polycarbonate shell that floats with its wrist strap.

Its significance is as the definitive 1980s adventure film camera: cheap holiday snapshooter then, cult object now, feeding the film revival's appetite for waterproof point-and-shoots for pool parties, festivals and beach film photography — demand visible in the wide £86-£350 spread across 18 current UK listings.

UK used-buying checks: never trust three-decade-old waterproofing — the O-ring seals have almost certainly hardened, so treat any unit as splashproof at best until seals are inspected/greased, and ask whether it has ever flooded (check inside the film chamber for corrosion tide-marks); open the battery compartment (it takes two AA cells) and check the contacts, a common corrosion site on beach-used examples; fire the flash and cycle the 35/50mm lens switch; confirm the film door gasket is supple and the latch clamps firmly; and test motor advance with a sacrificial film. Boxed, unflooded examples justify the top of the price range; salty, scratched ones do not.