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

Started Nov 11, 2017 | Discussions thread
EmmaNems Regular Member • Posts: 451
That's not cool, that's pedestrian

Paul Barnard wrote:

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...

Excellent points.

FWIW the AE-1 was the first SLR I bought in 1976 when I started a paid job and the camera I traded that for was the 7000. I think I am the archetypal customer you are referring to.

Both the AE-1 and the 7000 were very cool to the user at the time they were launched as they did things that others did not. Getting the exposure right was the forte of the AE-1 and getting the focus right was the strength of the 7000. Those were pretty cool things for the general public.

An additional point about the 7000 is that my then wife actually started taking images with it and eventually bought her own. She had never taken images with the manual focus AE-1. The 7000 was a game changer for many and made ‘high end’ SLR photography possible for ordinary people who made no claims to being a photographer. That’s very cool!

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