1981-85 I used the Minolta 110 Zoom SLR quite frequently. I don't have any examples to share but my recollection is that with Kodacolor 100 film and later Agfa 200, the pictures were pretty sharp...at least for 5" prints. I did have some enlargements made back in the day and one thing was the lab refused to do big poster prints from anything smaller than 35mm. With Kodacolor 400, the grain was there for sure...but it didn't spoil the image. I remember shooting some in a theatre under-exposing by a stop and the lab still managed to make decent prints - this in 1983 when everything was done optically even if there was some automation. Sadly that camera developed a shutter problem and even trying a professional and highly regarded repair shop this very year yielded no luck. I'd like to try it with Lomography Tiger film.
The thing with the Minolta was it had manual focus and aperture control which meant you could get sharper focus than the fixed focus f10 jobbies that most 110 cameras were. I would say that with most 110 cameras you saw the limitations of the optics, with the Minolta 110 Zoom SLR you saw the limitations of the format. It would be interesting indeed to see what one can do with modern film and scanning. I've shot Tiger in a "normal" 110 camera and really liked it.
The thing with the Minolta was it had manual focus and aperture control which meant you could get sharper focus than the fixed focus f10 jobbies that most 110 cameras were. I would say that with most 110 cameras you saw the limitations of the optics, with the Minolta 110 Zoom SLR you saw the limitations of the format. It would be interesting indeed to see what one can do with modern film and scanning. I've shot Tiger in a "normal" 110 camera and really liked it.