It is the brother of the more popular X700. The first Minolta that I got and the last that I sold was the X500 (X570 in the US ?). Minolta SRT 100x – All rights reserved (c) Cosmin Munteanuįinally here we are at the one camera, Minolta camera that I liked the most but I ended up selling it, together with the entire system. Bigger, like the Spotmatiks or the Pentax K series cameras, the SRT was a reliable camera with only one minus: the obsolete battery it used to power the lightmeter (although it had nothing to do with the camera’s ability of taking pictures). The workhorse among Minolta cameras was the SR mechanical series cameras. As small as the XD, it had automatic exposure (aperture priority) just like Pentax’s MG but with the posibility of manual override but a cloth curtain shutter. The XG series was what a Pentax MG would be. Minolta had of course a cheaper, entry level SLR too. Minolta XG2 – All rights reserved (c) Cosmin Munteanu But unlike Canon, XD featured a way quieter vertical travel metal shutter not a cloth curtain. The XD had exposure modes that I think only Canon introduced a year later on the A1: manual mode, aperture priority and shutter priority. I paired the XD with the Rokkor 45mm f:2,o, an excellent lens, small, kinda pancakekish. The XD had a common pedigree with the Leica R4 being (as it was its predecessor, the XE and Leica R3) the product of a joint-venture of the two (Minolta & Leica). I liked very much the XD7 (XD11 in the US), a “full metal” quite compact answer to Olympus’ OM-2. Minolta gave me mixed feelings, about the same as the camera I will talk shortly. Pentax ME Super & Minolta XD7 – All rights reserved (c) Cosmin Munteanu Besides K-Pentax mount cameras, F-Nikon and M42 screw mount ones, I once tried Minolta’s SR/MC/MD system. As mentioned in a not so old article, I had some experience with a number of 35mm film cameras.
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