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I am thinking of buying a Minolta Film SLR (AF models)

Started Nov 11, 2017 | Discussions thread
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Re: I am thinking of buying a Minolta Film SLR (AF models)

neilt3 wrote:

The Minolta 7000AF was my first SLR , before that I just had a cheap ( and nasty ) point and shoot .

I bought it used in the mid 90's along with the 35-70mm f/4 , 70-210mm f/4 and 50mm f/1.7 and got great results . ( well , that's unless I messed up the shot !)

It cost me about a months pay , wages were crap then . Today a nice bottle of whiskey cost's more than what we got paid in week then , ignoring inflation !

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The only thing that was bad about it was the slow A/F , but back in '85 it was the best and fastest A/F of any SLR .

Well it would be in a world of manual focus only cameras !

I still have it along with most of the Minolta SLR's (A/F & M/F ) and a load on nice Minolta lenses that I could only dream of then .

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I still shoot A mount and apart from a few Sony lenses and a few specialist type Sigma ones , all my main kit is Minolta gear .

They all work well on my Sony a900 , a77ii , a580 and Minolta Dynax 7d .

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My most used film camera's are the Dynax 7's that I own , one with Rollei infrared loaded and one with Ilford FP4 .

If you start to get hooked on film , that's the one to get , I prefer it to the Dynax 9 .

Next ones most used are the Dynax 60/ Maxxum 70 and Dynax 5 with it's battery grip .

Another one that's nice to use is the Dynax 600si , works well , has dial's instead of buttons and menus , and is also cheap .

Good ergonomics too , like the Dynax 7 & 9 , and a much better camera than the 7000AF .

Worth keeping an eye open for one , just to try . At the price they sell for , you've not a lot to lose .Anything you don't like you can get most of your money back by re-selling on ebay .

You might even make a little profit if your lucky .

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I seem to be going full circle now and I'm shooting more film than digiatl and have almost finished building my new darkroom .

Mostly 35mm , 120 roll film , 5"x4" and 7"x5" sheet film .

Thanks for your advice... for now film will be a side fun project..

But who knows... maybe i will get sucked in

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