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Full Circle - a Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D after 17 years

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John KM/linhof Regular Member • Posts: 476
Re: Full Circle - a Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D after 17 years

When the 7D came out I just had to have one but really couldn't justify the expense. Then with all the "back focus" complaints (a co-worker returned 2 for this issue and finally gave up and went with Nikon) I decided to wait till the Sony A100 came out. Interestingly I had sent a Maxxum 9 in for repair and they wouldn't do it but did send me, for free, a new A100 body for all my AF lenses, as a consolation prize (they kept my Maxxum 9).

Get a Minolta AF 28mm f/2 then you can use it on both. BTW I find the colors produced by my Sony A850 to be great and I have a "matching" Maxxum 9, both are more simple, to me,  analogue in operation. Digital is fine too, but I prefer it in the Fuji X-Pro1 and XE-1 than my Minolta/Sony cameras that remain more "film like" in operation. We all have choices.

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