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From: "Paul Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Minolta Experience
| Hi,
|
| On my lunch break from work i was out in the street taking some shots with
| my MX and a tourist asked me to take a couple photos of him with his
Minolta
| Maxxum 400si. The build quality of the body felt like rubbish and the
noise
| the shutter made was aweful, it felt like a toy camera. I was shocked by
| just how bad it felt, i dont think i have used a minolta b4.
My friend has the 404si and I played with it occasionally. It's damn
aweful - my worst impression on a camera ever (even EOS 300 is better)...
The design is ugly, the feeling is "toylike". The sound this body produces,
when one releases the shutter, is like "claaack" - I think it's more like
the sound of the raising mirror than the shutter itself, but nevertheless it
confuses me any time I use this camera - it's so long that I'm never sure
about the sharpness of the photo. The position of the viewfinder display (on
the left side) is very uncomfortable for me and since it lacks the AF
confirmation beep, working with this camera is very annoying.
| I have used both the MZ-30 and MZ-50 bodies and the build quality of
these
| appears to way outclass the minolta. I assume the 400si is in the same
class
| as the MZ30 and 50.
|
Im not really sure, but I'd say it's more like in the same class as the
MZ-30 or MZ-10. I assume the 400si features matrix metering (as the 404si
does). The MZ-50 has the multisegment meter but there are just 2 segments,
which is IMHO more like center-weighted metering than the real matrix...
I agree with you - every Pentax body outclasses consumer grade cameras of
Minolta (and Canon:))
Greetz
Artur
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