Minolta gear
A page about Minolta gear? Well to me it's obvious because I have quite a collection of Minolta bodies and lenses. For me it all started with my first SLR which happened to be a Minolta, a Minolta XG 9 to be specific. I must have been about fifteen when I wanted to buy my first SLR. After quite some study I decided that it had to be a Minolta. It was just a matter of price-quality. I really liked my brother's Nikon FM, but it was way too expensive at the age of 15. The XG 9 was a lot cheaper and also had automatic exposure with aperture priority. A kind of automation I appreciated (and still do). Later in life there came other Minoltas but als other brands. The moment I changed to autofocus, I also changed brands. Minolta was traded in for Canon.
Years later I stumbled upon a secondhand Minolta XG 9. I decided to buy it for old times sake. I almost wish I hadn't done it because it awoke the Minolta aficionado in me. I started to collect more and more Minolta photogear.
I must tell you I'm a bit of a sloppy collectionner. I intended to collect Minoltas in the '7-range' and the 'top-range'. An example of the '7-range' would be the XD 7, the X-700, the 7000 and so forth. Examples of the 'top-range' would be: XM or 9000. But with time passing there appeared also other types, but also other brands. You'll discover this as my website grows. Most of my cameras work flawless, but only seldom they're in mint condition. Mint condition means premium bucks and I have to stay in peace with my family...
In this area of the site you'll find pictures of the Minoltas in my collection. I'll also supply in short my experiences with the camera. What I don't do is to sum up all the specs or give extensive reviews. I'm a photographer and not a tester of gear. There are other terrific sites were you can find all this. Personally I love www.rokkorfiles.com which presents a beautiful overview of all the Minolta manual focus cameras. There are also good books on Minolta like Anni Rita and Josef Scheibel's '70 Jahre Minolta Kameratechnik' (ISBN 3-89506-191-) (in German).
Because I have manuals and brochures of many Minoltas, I'll ad these to the respective pages. I downloaded most of these manuals from Minoltas official US website after they quit. So I suppose there are no copyright issues. If you're looking for any camera manual, you should also check the super site of Mike Butkus: http://www.butkus.org/chinon/
Years later I stumbled upon a secondhand Minolta XG 9. I decided to buy it for old times sake. I almost wish I hadn't done it because it awoke the Minolta aficionado in me. I started to collect more and more Minolta photogear.
I must tell you I'm a bit of a sloppy collectionner. I intended to collect Minoltas in the '7-range' and the 'top-range'. An example of the '7-range' would be the XD 7, the X-700, the 7000 and so forth. Examples of the 'top-range' would be: XM or 9000. But with time passing there appeared also other types, but also other brands. You'll discover this as my website grows. Most of my cameras work flawless, but only seldom they're in mint condition. Mint condition means premium bucks and I have to stay in peace with my family...
In this area of the site you'll find pictures of the Minoltas in my collection. I'll also supply in short my experiences with the camera. What I don't do is to sum up all the specs or give extensive reviews. I'm a photographer and not a tester of gear. There are other terrific sites were you can find all this. Personally I love www.rokkorfiles.com which presents a beautiful overview of all the Minolta manual focus cameras. There are also good books on Minolta like Anni Rita and Josef Scheibel's '70 Jahre Minolta Kameratechnik' (ISBN 3-89506-191-) (in German).
Because I have manuals and brochures of many Minoltas, I'll ad these to the respective pages. I downloaded most of these manuals from Minoltas official US website after they quit. So I suppose there are no copyright issues. If you're looking for any camera manual, you should also check the super site of Mike Butkus: http://www.butkus.org/chinon/
