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KM Maxxum 7D: A Photographer's Camera
Hands-on review:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/re...nolta-7d.shtml Seems a very nice handling camera. Large, clear and bright viewfinder. The Anti-Shake seems to work well. Image noise level as low as Canon 20D at all ISO levels! Some excellent lenses which are not expensive. Deryck |
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deryck lant wrote:
Hands-on review: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/re...nolta-7d.shtml Seems a very nice handling camera Like most Maxxum's. .. Large, clear and bright viewfinder. but no LCD status display on top. The Anti-Shake seems to work well. Image noise level as low as Canon 20D at all ISO levels! Hardly an accomplishment with a lower res sensor. Some excellent lenses which are not expensive. A review worth reading. Photo examples are worthless (except those dealing with low light). Cheers, Alan -- -- rec.photo.equipment.35mm user resource: -- http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- e-meil: there's no such thing as a FreeLunch.-- |
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deryck lant wrote:
Hands-on review: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/re...nolta-7d.shtml Seems a very nice handling camera Like most Maxxum's. .. Large, clear and bright viewfinder. but no LCD status display on top. The Anti-Shake seems to work well. Image noise level as low as Canon 20D at all ISO levels! Hardly an accomplishment with a lower res sensor. Some excellent lenses which are not expensive. A review worth reading. Photo examples are worthless (except those dealing with low light). Cheers, Alan -- -- rec.photo.equipment.35mm user resource: -- http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- e-meil: there's no such thing as a FreeLunch.-- |
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"Alan Browne" wrote in message ... deryck lant wrote: Hands-on review: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/re...nolta-7d.shtml The apparent lag i worrying though hopefully turning off antishake will cure this. |
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deryck lant wrote in
: Hands-on review: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/re...nolta-7d.shtml He has made three errors however. Two of them I pointd to in a mail to him: ***** This is in fact the third, or depending on point of view, fifth digital SLR from Minolta. The RD-175 was a 1.75 Mp camera released in 1995, the RD-3000 was released in around 2000 and was 3mp. These were true DSLRs. There were also two still video products before this, the earliest production item the SB-90S still video back for the 9000 pro camera, released in 1986 (yes). http://www.9000.org/index.php?page=backs#SB90S Minolta also have lenses with in-lens focusing motors, as Canon's USM and Nikon's "Silent Wave". Minolta's system is called SSM, but as of yet there are only two (pro) lenses. SSM lenses offer all features typically associated with USM, such as full-time manual focusing. Actually there are even some lenses using the body's focusing motor that offers full-time manual focus; it's just that the 100-400 isn't one of them. So, it's not a "system fault", but rather a problem with the lens you were using. ***** I forgot to comment on the third thing -- he complains about the searching at power on. This is with 99% certainty a feature designed to give pre-D lenses D support and thus proper exposure and better AS support. The surprising thing is that the camera does this with D lenses too. Strange. |
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deryck lant wrote in
: Hands-on review: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/re...nolta-7d.shtml He has made three errors however. Two of them I pointd to in a mail to him: ***** This is in fact the third, or depending on point of view, fifth digital SLR from Minolta. The RD-175 was a 1.75 Mp camera released in 1995, the RD-3000 was released in around 2000 and was 3mp. These were true DSLRs. There were also two still video products before this, the earliest production item the SB-90S still video back for the 9000 pro camera, released in 1986 (yes). http://www.9000.org/index.php?page=backs#SB90S Minolta also have lenses with in-lens focusing motors, as Canon's USM and Nikon's "Silent Wave". Minolta's system is called SSM, but as of yet there are only two (pro) lenses. SSM lenses offer all features typically associated with USM, such as full-time manual focusing. Actually there are even some lenses using the body's focusing motor that offers full-time manual focus; it's just that the 100-400 isn't one of them. So, it's not a "system fault", but rather a problem with the lens you were using. ***** I forgot to comment on the third thing -- he complains about the searching at power on. This is with 99% certainty a feature designed to give pre-D lenses D support and thus proper exposure and better AS support. The surprising thing is that the camera does this with D lenses too. Strange. |
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Magnus W wrote:
deryck lant wrote in : Hands-on review: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/re...nolta-7d.shtml He has made three errors however. Two of them I pointd to in a mail to him: ***** This is in fact the third, or depending on point of view, fifth digital SLR from Minolta. The RD-175 was a 1.75 Mp camera released in 1995, the RD-3000 was released in around 2000 and was 3mp. These were true DSLRs. There were also two still video products before this, the earliest production item the SB-90S still video back for the 9000 pro camera, released in 1986 (yes). http://www.9000.org/index.php?page=backs#SB90S As the previous efforts were less than stellar (RD-175) for Maxxum/Dynax lens owners, and the others not useful at all ... and that Minota tucked tail and disappeared from the scene while Nikon, Canon, Pentax (and gosh, Sigma!) were rolling out product, I see absolutely no harm in ignoring Minolta's initial forays... now they have the 7D and hopefully they will keep on keeping on (although at first blush it looks excellent, there is always room for improvement). -- -- rec.photo.equipment.35mm user resource: -- http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- e-meil: there's no such thing as a FreeLunch.-- |
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Magnus W wrote:
Alan Browne wrote in : As the previous efforts were less than stellar (RD-175) for Maxxum/Dynax lens owners, You have the wrong perspective, you are looking at it from today's viewpoint. For the time, the RD-175 was considered excellent, groundbreaking, and inexpensive. Look at contemporary reviews. No, I knew then that it was a kludge and hoped that Minolta would get serious and do it right ... they did, but it has taken a loooooooonnng time to do anything at all. -- -- rec.photo.equipment.35mm user resource: -- http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- e-meil: there's no such thing as a FreeLunch.-- |
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Magnus W wrote:
Alan Browne wrote in : As the previous efforts were less than stellar (RD-175) for Maxxum/Dynax lens owners, You have the wrong perspective, you are looking at it from today's viewpoint. For the time, the RD-175 was considered excellent, groundbreaking, and inexpensive. Look at contemporary reviews. No, I knew then that it was a kludge and hoped that Minolta would get serious and do it right ... they did, but it has taken a loooooooonnng time to do anything at all. -- -- rec.photo.equipment.35mm user resource: -- http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- e-meil: there's no such thing as a FreeLunch.-- |
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I see absolutely no harm in ignoring Minolta's initial forays...
You'll probably be saying the same thing about the 7D in a few years after the latest whizz-bang is released. "Alan Browne" wrote in message ... Magnus W wrote: deryck lant wrote in : Hands-on review: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/re...nolta-7d.shtml He has made three errors however. Two of them I pointd to in a mail to him: ***** This is in fact the third, or depending on point of view, fifth digital SLR from Minolta. The RD-175 was a 1.75 Mp camera released in 1995, the RD-3000 was released in around 2000 and was 3mp. These were true DSLRs. There were also two still video products before this, the earliest production item the SB-90S still video back for the 9000 pro camera, released in 1986 (yes). http://www.9000.org/index.php?page=backs#SB90S As the previous efforts were less than stellar (RD-175) for Maxxum/Dynax lens owners, and the others not useful at all ... and that Minota tucked tail and disappeared from the scene while Nikon, Canon, Pentax (and gosh, Sigma!) were rolling out product, I see absolutely no harm in ignoring Minolta's initial forays... now they have the 7D and hopefully they will keep on keeping on (although at first blush it looks excellent, there is always room for improvement). -- -- rec.photo.equipment.35mm user resource: -- http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- e-meil: there's no such thing as a FreeLunch.-- |
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