On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Mike Johnston wrote: > Only one of those things concerns recent developments, unless you > count backward compatibility as being something new....
You're observant. :) I prefer MF and MedF, so I don't really use AF stuff unless I'm just playing around. > I was out looking at Nikons and Minoltas this afternoon...has anyone seen > the Maxxum 7? Yup, I've played with it a while. It's not a bad camera... Minolta always made good, well-built bodies. The LCD screen which rotates the info according to the horizontal/vertical position of the camera is gimmicky, but the camera itself has a decent viewfinder. Too bad I'm not fond of many Minolta AF lenses. > I was really impressed by it. It's tremendously overloaded > with a zillion features--it's really a feature-lover's camera Most Minoltas are. > Too bad I'd have to use Nikkors on the darn thing. I really like the > N80. What's to hate about Nikkors? NIC ain't any SMC, but they're not *horrible*. chris
