Last Minolta Manual Focus

[Randy]

The Minolta X9. My latest aqusition.

[lloydy]

I have a couple of XD-7's ( XD-11 in the USA ? ) and I love them, there's so many good lenses for them. I was always a Canon man back in the day, I should have been a Minolta man, they are far better.
That one should scrub up nicely, at least the rubber grip is still in one piece.

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these are the last mf model? a variant of the x370/700 ?
I had read somewhere that there was some feature of the x570 that made it more desirable to the more serious photog.
anybody know anything about that?

[lloydy]

What lens is hiding under the Sakar cap? Is it a Sakar or is that the very nice Rokkor 35-70? I've got the Rokkor 35-70 / 3.5 Macro and it's stunning, as good as many primes. And the non macro version is supposed to be as good in sharpness.

[Randy]

It's the Rokkor 35/70. The camera came with that cap, and I haven't changed it to a Minolta cap yet.

[Randy]

Mar 26, 2013 11:38:59 GMT -5 @camerabob said:

these are the last mf model? a variant of the x370/700 ?
I had read somewhere that there was some feature of the x570 that made it more desirable to the more serious photog.
anybody know anything about that?

From the old MINMAN SITE: (1983) Similar to the X-700, it added some features and lost some. Many consider this Minolta best "user" camera with the features most needed by shutterbugs. The biggest change from the X-700 was that the X-570 lacked the programmed exposure mode. For some this is a big loss, but for others, it is no loss at all since they prefer more control of the exposure. At the same time, the X-570 maintained the TTL flash mode which many find very useful. In addition, it had the same interchangeable screens as the X-700. And although it was simpler in some ways, the X-570 was the first LED-based Minolta camera to display the manually-set shutter speed in the viewfinder. In automatic-exposure mode, just like the X-700, the X-570 showed the automatically selected shutter speed on the LED scale. But in manual mode, unlike the X-700, the X-570 showed the manually-set shutter speed as a blinking LED in the viewfinder, while the metered speed (recommended setting) was a constantly lit LED. This made the X-570 much more like the XE-7 and XK models which showed both the metered speed and the manually set speed. So pick your poison -- the X-700 with more automatic features or the X-570 with more control.

[lloydy]

That lens was also sold under the Leica name, along with a 70-210 I think? Mine has to be the best short zoom I've ever tried. they fetch good prices as well.

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thhanks for the quote, Randy. That sounds like what I had seen.
I haven't used either of my 570 or 700. I do have 2 35 - 70s
one is MD ROKKOR X 35-70mm 1:3.5, is this the one that is supposed to be very good.
I think I have used it, but I'll have to look up the pics.
the other one is a later Min MD 35 -70.