Having cut my teeth on fully manual mechanical 35mm SLR cameras, I was unfamiliar with the final, fully automatic, iteration of this camera type – the Minolta Dynax 5. Perhaps rather snobbishly ...

One of my favorites was the Minolta Maxxum (Dynax) 7000, nothing less than the first SLR to feature autofocus, and with very space age styling. And let’s not forget that Minolta made digital ...

into a small and light silver-colored SLR camera body. Like all other autofocus Minolta cameras, it used the same lenses initially offered in the mid-1980s. Also available was a battery grip (BP ...