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that i have a minolta 7s2 coming in?
yeah, it's already in the mail and flying to the great white north!!
🙂
yeah, it's already in the mail and flying to the great white north!!
🙂
Some have suggested that the 40mm f1.7 employed by the E was the basis for the 40mm f2.0 Rokkor (aka the 40mm f2.0 Summicron-C) that Minolta built for use with the Leica CL. This seems unlikely. The design clearly predates the Leitz-Minolta partnership, but is known that Leitz originally intended to market the CL with a 40 mm f 2.8 lens and that Minolta proposed an f2.0 design. The f2.0 lens was deemed adequate in performance to bear the Leica name and was also considered more attractive the the upscale amatuer market for which the CL was intended.
The Hi-Matic 7sII was introduced in 1977. It was the last of the Hi-Matic Range finders. It has a body about the size of the Hi-Matics F and G, and the 40mm f1.7 lens like that on the Hi-Matic E. It allows shutter priority automatic operation or complete manual operation (no metered manual mode). The shutter is mechanical allowing it to operate on all speeds with or without battery. It has no easy flash system. Instead, it came with a thyristor flash. It can use any type of automatic flash. Slightly louder than the Hi-Matic E it offers a more robust camera that can continue to operate without batteries. Less pocketable than the F (because of the larger lens), it is nevertheless a more reliable camera simply due to its ability to operate manually, and without batteries.