Minolta certainly had some exceptionally talented design engineers, for
example the TTL flash system that they licensed to OLy years before they
could implement it. What they didn't have were either engineers that could
make cameras that were robust and could stand up to ordinary usage, or
executives that would allow them to make something like that. I had a friend
that had a late Minolta P&S film camera. he used it to photograph on job
sites. One day, he felt something hot in his pants pocket. It was the
minolta that was self-destructing, something to do with the built-in flash.
My regular repairman, one of the few remaining Nikon independent service
centers, can go on at length at the inability of certain cameras to stand up
to seemingly normal use, the big two being Minolta and Bronica. Had they
been able to be as durable as Nikon and Canon, things might have come out
vey very different. Perhaps a Pentax mount Sony?
Bill Pearce
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From: Ken Norton
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 5:27 PM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] Contax G
> I'll have to cogitate on this one a while. I think I know most of this
> stuff but I wasn't aware that exposure weighting was moving with the
> flex focus point.
Yup. And if you are using AF without the flex focus point, where it
selects whatever it wants, the exposure weighting automatically moves
with it. Canon DSLRs do the same thing. This was something Canon
exploited very well with the EOS-3 and managed to be quite successful.
But according to people in the know, Minolta, with the Dynax 7 really
got it nailed and that same system migrated into the 2/3" sensor
cameras and really perfected in the A1/A2/A200.
Without a doubt, the Dynax 7 remains on my own shortlist of must-have
film cameras. I realize it has zero compatibility with anything I own,
but it's just such a near-perfect camera otherwise. Shame about the
lens mount...
All this talk about metering, and I have a couple of OM's within arm's
reach just screaming to be used.
AG
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