On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:40 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Feb 24, 2010, at 6:50 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > >> >> >> The flash shoe is the one thing Minolta got right 22 years ago and no >> other maker else has clued in on. A flash shoe with no exposed >> contacts, a simple pushbutton lock system that doesn't fail, jam or > > Huh? My X700 is much newer than 22 years old, and it has exposed contacts. > > It'll also use regular manual flashes, so maybe Minolta didn't put it on any > of their SLRs that I own. > > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est
Your X-700 is a 29 year old design even if your example is much newer in construction, it was introduced in 1981. MD stuff continued in production but ceased being developed around the time the i-series A mount bodies were introduced. All innovation by Minolta was in their AF line from that point including the new flash shoe. -Adam -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
