I'm not, Minolta's MD and MC lenses were very well built, and having
worked for one I can tell you that followers of old Minolta equipment
were worse fanatics than JCO will ever be.
William Robb wrote:
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>From: "Adam Maas"
>Subject: Re: The JCO survey
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>>Ironically, Canon was forced to introduce a new low-end FD body which
>>lasted for a number of years (the T50, made by Cosina) after they
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>>to kill FD, they didn't succeed until 1991 or so. Minolta sold MD kit
>>right until the end, with the X700, and even Olympus introduced their
>>last OM body in 2000 (both of which were made by Cosina of course).
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>I remember the T50 as one of the last FD mount bodies, along with the
>T70, and T90. We couldn't get them after about 1988 or 89.
>They weren't a camera for anyone with an interest in photography past
>snapshooting.
>IIRC, the only exposure control on the T50 was the ISO dial.
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>I'm amazed the X-700 was around for as long as it was, there was also a
>Chinese company that made an X-370 clone for quite a while.
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>William Robb
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