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Minolta Dynax 7 vertical rotating screen

Started Oct 23, 2020 | Discussions thread
Paul Barnard
Paul Barnard Veteran Member • Posts: 3,798
Re: Minolta Dynax 7 vertical rotating screen
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havanna60 wrote:

I bought my first AF film camera this month (October 17, 2020), a Dynax 7, and I am totally amazed how great camera is this. It's heavy and bulky like a professional DSLR, no question.

One of the features I was surprised by was autorotating screen on the back of a film camera.

The screen display options on Dynax 7.

Actually it is not fully automatic, you have to half-press the shutter to force auto-rotation.

You can disable this feature. Interestingly at this time they didn't use the term menu. The term CUSTOM was used, instead.

... and it still works on my camera, too, in 2020. I wonder if it remains operational for the next 20 years?

Works on mine too.  I would certainly expect it to be working in 20 years time.  The 7 was an amazingly advanced camera and built very well.  I'm my opinion one of the best handling cameras of all time.

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