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Feb 05, 2015
The best electronic SLR that Minolta made without auto-focus.
2 of 2 found this helpful I bought this camera as a back-up to my existing X-570. In my opinion, this is the best electronic SLR that Minolta made without auto-focus. It operates quickly, smoothly, and accurately, and it serves as a great camera body to mate with both MC and MD manual-focus Minolta lenses, which are excellent optics.
I usually use this camera with the Autowinder G, which allows me to advance the film without removing the camera from my eye.
The X-700 was the first Minolta SLR with automated exposure modes that attracted my interest, as it was their first to offer AEL* (Auto Exposure Lock), which I consider a necessity with automated exposure. It offered Program auto-exposure, Aperture Priority auto-exposure, metered manual exposure, and TTL (Through The Lens) automated flash exposure. I had no use for the program mode, however.
When the X-570 came out, it was exactly what I wanted. It had no program mode, it had an improved manual exposure mode (showing both the recommended shutter speed and the currently set shutter speed, in the finder), and it had an improved TTL flash automation mode that allowed the photographer to press the AEL button for a slower shutter speed to better match exposure between the background and the flash. This generation of Minolta SLRs also had the Acute Matte focusing screen (a technology possibly going back to 1977), which was very bright and contrasty, for easier viewing and focusing. (Hasselblad licensed the Acute Matte technology from Minolta for their own cameras.)
The X-570 has complete information in the finder. It shows both the shutter speed (in LEDs) and the aperture (in a window, reflected from the lens's aperture ring), so that the photographer can set the exposure without removing his/her eye from the finder. In Aperture Priority automation, it shows both the recommended shutter speed (as the X-700 does) and it shows the currently set shutter speed (which the X-700 doesn't). After the X-570, Minolta introduced the slightly simpler X-370, which has the same Aperture Priority automatic mode and the metered manual mode as the X-570. Unlike the X-570, it doesn't show the aperture in the finder and it doesn't have TTL automatic flash metering.
*Auto Exposure Lock/AEL allows the photographer to point the camera at the part of the scene with the desired exposure value. The photographer can then press the AEL button to hold that exposure while s/he recomposes and shoots. An example of this would be dipping the camera down below the sky, to keep the sky from inflating the reading and causing underexposure of the rest of the scene. The exposure would be locked by holding down the AEL button while the camera is raised to include the sky in the image and the shutter is tripped to take the picture.
My only complaint about this camera is that you have to hold the AEL button down as long as you want to keep the exposure locked. This is typical for the time when the camera was made. I would prefer it if, instead of having to hold the button down, I could press the AEL button once and have it hold the exposure until the shutter is tripped.
Jun 12, 2023
Good after-market lens hood for Canon.
This is an after-market lens hood for Canon lenses. It is well made and it bayonets smoothly onto my Canon 70 - 200mm F/4.0 L IS USM lens. It costs far less than the Canon lens hood and is a good value.