There's nothing fragile about an SRT-101. Perhaps the problems crept in
with the advent of electronics. Also, in the later years, Minolta made
a lot of really cheap looking autofocus SLRs.
Chuck Norcutt
On 4/13/2011 6:53 PM, Bill Pearce wrote:
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
--
_________________________________________________________________
Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus
Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/
Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/
|