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Minolta SLR

24 July, 2023

Minolta X-300 Review – The Last Manual Focus SLR

By Bob Janes

In clearing out my late father’s stuff, I came across quite a few cameras. Dad was an instrument maker and specialized in optics. He used to buy up cameras out of ‘bargain bins’...
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31 March, 2023

Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D – Nostalgic liaison with an old flame

By Ibraar Hussain

Ah nostalgia, it’s a strange thing and forms a part of every one’s life and the older one gets the more the past seems so rose tinted. My first Digital SLR was a Konica Minolta ...
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13 February, 2023

Minolta XM Compared to the Nikon F2 – Between Myth and Market – By Alex Peter

By Alex Peter

In 1973, the year of the Minolta XM's launch, Minolta had been serving the consumer market very successfully for several years with the SR-T . There, it was a hard-to-beat queen...
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2 October, 2020

Minolta Dynax 5 & Dynax 60 Review – Late Model Budget Gems – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

This is a comparison review of two of Minolta's last film SLRs, separated by only 3 years and aimed, for the most part at the same audience. These were fully featured SLRs with ...
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29 September, 2020

Minolta SRT 101 Review – My Funny Valentine – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

A recent re-associating with the Pentax Spotmatic F had me pondering about some of the other ‘Golden Oldies’ that have been sitting by the skirting board in my living room for a...
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10 August, 2020

Minolta X300 – Turning Back Time with my 35 Year Old SLR – By Richard Wilford

By Richard Wilford

I was given a Minolta X300 for my 21st birthday. It wasn’t my first camera but it was my first SLR, and I’m still using it 35 years later. For 23 years it was virtually all I us...
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10 July, 2020

Minolta Dynax 7 Review (aka Minolta a-7 & Maxxum 7) – As good as it gets – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

The Minolta Alpha/Maxxum or Minolta Dynax 7 (as mine is, and as I shall from henceforth be calling it) was released in 2000 and was about as sophisticated as any 35mm SLR ever g...
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15 May, 2020

Minolta XG-E Review: Takes a Lickin’ and Keeps On Tickin’ – by Aaron Gold

By Aaron Gold

In my Nikomat FT2 review, I mentioned my friend Mark who bestowed that camera upon me. Here’s the full story: One week I showed up to Mark’s office for his weekly Models and Mov...
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