2 November, 2026
Minolta Dynax 7xi review – Everything turned up to ‘xi’
The Minolta Dynax 7xi (also known as Alpha or Maxxum 7xi) was released in 1991 as a replacement for the Alpha/Dynax/Maxxum 7000i which had been Minolta’s ‘enthusiast...
28 September, 2026
Minolta Dynax 7000i review – Cards on the table
The subject of this review was released in 1988 as a replacement for the Original ‘7000’. With that camera Minolta had shaken up the photographic market. It was the ...
30 March, 2026
Minolta Dynax 9 and 7 – A Comparison
Although these cameras were known in eastern markets as Alpha and in American markets as Maxxum, the copies I’m dealing with are the European Dynax versions – so I w...
9 March, 2026
Minolta Panoramic A-303si SLR – Why you don’t need to spend 4 Grand on an XPan – Seeing Panoramic Part II
I wrote a post sometime back about my experience with the Fuji TX-2 aka Hasselblad XPan II. A lovely camera which I sold for peanuts, it’s now risen in price so much that ...
16 February, 2026
Minolta Dynax 9 (Maxxum 9/Alpha 9) – Three Steps to Heaven
This is a review of the Minolta Dynax 9. It was Minolta’s third (and last) ‘professional’ Autofocus system SLR. At the time, Minolta used different brandings in Asia (Alpha), Eu...
22 October, 2025
Minolta a-9 – Raspberry Picking in September with a 24mm f2.8, Red 25 Filter and Rollei Retro 80s
It was a lovely day in early September, a month where I’m often filled with anxiety; dreading the coming Winter and the end of the brief days of fine weather of Spring and...
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...