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

Started Nov 11, 2017 | Discussions thread
neilt3
neilt3 Veteran Member • Posts: 3,008
Nothing wrong with the Minolta's .
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FrancoD wrote:

There is a lot of room between cool and embarassing. However I can tell you that I had a lot of very excited buyers of those cameras I mentioned.

The photo industry was exited by them, so again FAR from embarassing.

When the 7000 came out , the industry was in a period of stagnation.

Canon had created a buzz (and sent a few camera companies out of business) when it launched the AE1 in 1976. After that there wasn't much that excited the market.

Minolta with the 7000 brought in a lot of people into the stores, it created the buzz. to some , that is cool...

Be aware that emmanem get's off on trolling the forums .

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As it happens the Minolta 7000AF was my first SLR that I bought used in the 90's .

I still have it along with the lenses , and I still shoot mainly A mount cameras now , both film and digital .

My most used Minolta film cameras now though are the Dynax 7 , Dynax 9 , Dynax 5 or 60 and the X700 / X500 .

Having the dials back on the cameras from the 600si onwards was much more to my liking than buttons , especially skinny ones on the 7000AF .

The viewfinders an eyeopener for a lot of people that are used to dingy pentamirrors of most APSC DSLR's .

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