This is probably why the focus conformation bleep just sounds immediately when you hlf-press the shutter button for most normal distances.
Thus most of the time there is effectively zero depth of field to speak of. This makes the entrance pupil between 2.3mm on the wide end and 14.5mm on the long end. Although the aperture ratings sound not too bad here, once you multiply them by the crop factor they'll seem pretty poor and they are! Although 40mm isn't particularly wide the image quality holds up fine until you go all the way to 400mm and then you get a bit of chromatic aberration. It's protected by a piece of glass at the front which is quite far away from the front of the actual lens at 40mm, so any tiny dust on here will show up on your images. This is how they get away with a 10x optical zoom that doesn't protrude from the camera. With the sensor size being only 1/4" (3.7x2.8mm) this gives the FD7 a 9.5x crop factor. Formatting floppy discs has to be done at home, but it does tell you how many images you've shot and roughly how full the disk is. There are some shooting modes, but you'd have to look through the manual to see what they might affect because there is no indication as to what the camera settings are at all other than exposure compensation. The menu is a single page with only 4 options. Controls for manual focus do exist, but the screen it so low resolution that it's almost impossible to use. The buttons are few, which makes this a very easy camera to pick up and figure out. The grip is chunky, but without much to actually grip your fingers into, so if you're using it with gloves in the cold (like I am) it's recommended to have a strap (which I didn't). The weight is also similar, although of course this includes a 10x zoom lens. It's actually the same width as Sony's modern full frame mirrorless cameras (A7/A9/A1), but significantly taller.
The floppy discs determined much of the size and shape of this camera.
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