Minolta 700si

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... Dinning". This reveals how much of the camera works. I bought the custom expansion card and leave this in all the time to expand the functionallity of the camera. The only thing I don't like about the camera itself is the slow focusing, which at the time of rele ase was pretty fast. The metering is superb though, and I get very good results on programme mode. DOF preview and auto bracketing work very well. The flash system uses Minoltas ...more

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Minolta 700si: Very good for everything (487 words)
by - written on 14/09/00 (Useful, 1090 readings)
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This camera was my first SLR and to be honest it's so good I've never changed it. I've had it for about 5 years now and it's still operating perfectly, not a single hitch. I've never had it serviced either, and it still performs and looks as good as the day I bought it. You can get into a trap with all auto SLRs of choosing really good cameras and really cheap lenses. I opted for some Minolta lenses when I bought it, all of them zooms (75-300 and 28-80). To be honest they were pretty poor, especially the 75-300 zoom. A while went by and I'd been looking at the 50mm fixed length lenses you always see available in second hand shops. ... Read the complete review

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