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I have the Minolta 700 si, it is a very good camera slightly better than the older 7000, 7000i and 7xi all of which I have and are all still working, I also have the 7 (single number) which is a...

Minolta was always playing third fiddle to other camera makers except for a brief period when they brought out the AF 7000 (Maxxum etc.). They have had great cameras and lenses with many...

My only regret was in 1985 when Minolta brought out the AF 7000, I decided to sell all my Minolta MD lenses and a couple of XD7 cameras, one in mint condition. I gradually accumulated AF lenses to...

A lot of these cameras are not that bad, some have more function than form others have more form than function, some are just plain ugly. I can forgive the Sony F505 as being function over form....

keepreal most 81 series filters will reduce light in the ultraviolet (UV) spectrum, maybe more so than an ordinary UV filter. Yellow, orange and red filters in black and white photography lead to...

A UV (slight yellowish) or Skylight (1A or 1B (slight pinkish)) filter is good for removing the blue haze you get especially noticeable in distant views in mountainous landscapes and with slide...

No mention of the Sony LA-EA3 and LA- EA4 adapters for Sony/Minolta A-mount lenses, they may not be as popular as Nikon and Canon adapters but they do exist.

Very much like gopherino, I started out with a Minolta SRT-101 though I got both my parents into Minolta cameras, at the time my dad had an old Agfa folder which I never saw him use and my mother...

My favorite film camera (you may guess) is the Minolta XD7 (aka XD and XD11). It was the last of the metal bodied Minolta's, not very heavy with less reliance on electronics and poly-carbonate on...

What I want as I said "doesn't exist right now" that is why I also said "I would love to see a camera/sensor manufacturer bring out" meaning what would be a new camera, I also said "interchangeable...

No!... too heavy, too expensive, very little manual controls (switches and dials) too many in-built digital tweaks, par it down, make it simpler. Basically I want what doesn't exist right now that...

I do care, I don't want M43 or APS-C, I want to use as an example a 24mm as a 24mm (not as a 48mm or 36mm equivalent), I do want old school manual controls, I also want a full frame sensor designed...

You all miss the point, I was thinking a much simpler design without a mirror box but with manual switches and dials for shutter speed, ISO, exposure compensation, Aperture priority Manual selector...

EthanP99/ Mr Bolton I was thinking more retro than a Nikon Df without being retro for the sake of the look only, for Leica I did say "at a reasonable price" as for Fuji and M43, I said "full frame"...

I would love to see a camera/sensor manufacturer bring out a light weight full frame interchangeable "mount" camera (at a reasonable price) with film era ergonomics and manual controls to use all...

Fun topic.... designed to bring out the gear fan's response, my sunstars are bigger than yours, my out of camera jpeg color is better than yours etc.

tkbasic mostly makes sense except Canon EF 45.5% is not ownership but market share by brand so if all who own or hire a Canon EF camera and hire more or less EF gear than average the results will...

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As a photographer I have an interest in the contents of the video, not just on what you think it is about but how it is taken and how it is presented, as to opinion, to each there own.

Did you loose the hood off the Batis? A hood is not only good for keeping sun flare at bay (if you had sun) but also to protect the front element from most stray snow flakes and what is it with the...

The f-stop of both is f/2.8 but the t-stop which is the effective light transmission stop is T/4.5 on the 135 mm while it is T/5.6 on the 100 mm. In other words the neutral density is greater on...