25 August, 2025
Minolta XG9 review
There was a point in the late 70s when Minolta did something mildly uncharacteristic. They had always produced interesting cameras with cutting-edge features, but occasionally t...
13 September, 2024
Minolta 7000 – Finding an eBay Bargain
Over the years I have become a little more savvy at buying and selling on eBay and I recently managed to bag, what to me, is a super bargain. Rewinding back to around 1986 our h...
15 April, 2024
Minolta Maxxum 7 – The Best for when you really have got to get that shot (on a budget)
Early 2017 was a disaster, needless to say one thing lead to another and I then eventually was camera-less. You can imagine how that feels? Penniless yes, but cameras-less? Anyw...
23 December, 2023
Minolta Dynax 9xi – That difficult second ‘Pro’ AF SLR
This is a review of the Minolta Dynax 9xi (aka Minolta Maxxum/Alpha 9xi, hereafter referred to as the Dynax 9xi). It was Minolta’s second ‘professional’ Autofo...
This is perhaps a familiar story to photographers over the age of 40. I started taking pictures in the pre-digital era. The first camera that was my own was a Canon Snappy 20* &...
This is a review of the Minolta 9000, the first professional autofocus camera. Back in the 60s and 70s the pro camera market was dominated by Nikon with their ‘bullet-proo...
24 July, 2023
Minolta X-300 Review – The Last Manual Focus SLR
In clearing out my late father’s stuff, I came across quite a few cameras. Dad was an instrument maker and specialized in optics. He used to buy up cameras out of ‘bargain bins’...
Ah nostalgia, it’s a strange thing and forms a part of every one’s life and the older one gets the more the past seems so rose tinted. My first Digital SLR was a Konica Minolta ...