Are Later Film SLRs Now Overlooked?
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Austintatious
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Think Panasonic FZ Forum from many moons ago :angel:
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Out to Lunch
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Canon EOS 5. Excellent camera. The batteries are available on ebay and amazon.
Contarama
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Huss
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It's easier to carry a spare set of batteries than extra film. And for some reason no-one has an issue with carrying extra film.
It also has this amaaaaazing invention called a battery level indicator.
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p.giannakis
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Any of these is a fantastic camera. And very cheap too.
Ste_S
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The Canon EOS300x is very nice (the last film camera introduced by Canon), and with the 40mm pancake it's tiny for a SLR.
There's two Minolta Dynax 5's sitting in my local charity shop which keep calling me, anyone had any experience with these ?
Edit - The A mount on the Minolta's is the same as the one used by Sony, right ? Does anyone use a Minolta AF film body and share lenses with something like a Sony A7 ?
retinax
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The Minolta AF SLR mount was used on the digital Sony SLRs before the A7. The A7, being mirrorless, would be giving away a lot of potential if it used an slr mount with long register. I think there is a adapter though.
David Hughes
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Hi,
Despite having a lot of Minolta SLR's in the heap I've no experience of the 5 but I will say that their lenses are very good. I wish you hadn't mentioned it; it reminded me that I keep wondering if I should get a 7000 - mainly because I've had and sold a couple over the years and miss it.
FWIW, I have 8 lenses and 5 bodies at the moment and I only sold the 7000 because they were sought after on ebay and so the easiest to sell as I tried to downsize/declutter...
There are several versions of the Minolta etc mount; large and small and with various electrical connections, some have 5 some 8 and so on. There was also a Minolta APS SLR that shared the mount with a (rare) digital Minolta camera. Called the 3000?
Regards, David
vagab0nd
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It's the same mount as used on the Sony A77 (called A-mount) and the other dSLR / dSLT's that Sony has produced. AFAIK the new A-mount lenses work on older Minolta bodies. And there are some good Minolta bodies out there from the lightweight consumer types all the way up to the Minolta Dynax 7, which is one the highest regarded 35mm SLR's made.
css9450
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I think the battery thing gets overblown here. Some cameras (not all), use common AA batteries available everywhere, and those batteries last a very long time. When my N90S was my primary camera, I only replaced the batteries a couple times a year, at most, shooting a dozen rolls a month usually. By contrast, the rechargeable battery in my Sony mirrorless needs a recharge every time I use it.
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Huss
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If a battery bricks ?? just replace it
james.liam
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Any of these is a fantastic camera. And very cheap too.
Not the prettiest trio.
Steve M.
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"Not the prettiest trio."
I agree, it was a time when camera makers were smoothing things out a lot, especially the Canons. Many of the cameras from that era look like black blobs of plastic. The Nikon is the only one that looks even vaguely like a SLR.
I owned an N90s and still shoot an n8008s. Fantastic cameras. A little big and heavy, but worth it for all the features and the amazingly big and bright viewfinders.
I agree, it was a time when camera makers were smoothing things out a lot, especially the Canons. Many of the cameras from that era look like black blobs of plastic. The Nikon is the only one that looks even vaguely like a SLR.
I owned an N90s and still shoot an n8008s. Fantastic cameras. A little big and heavy, but worth it for all the features and the amazingly big and bright viewfinders.
james.liam
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Yet, at the same time these same makers produced things of enduring beauty, like the Nikon FM2n/3a or bold design experimentation like the Leica R8.
Huss
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I always thought the R8 looked half finished and kinda ugly, but the R9 is gorgeous.
james.liam
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Love them or hate them, the R8/9 were anything but boring. The 'S' cameras carry on the design exercise.
Ste_S
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I find the distrust of batteries and electronics amusing - especially for devices that rely on consumable supplies.
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