![]() Today this still is a very usable camera. I bought this in 1981 and for years I only used this beauty. It's right in every way, heavy but not too heavy, large but smaller and more comfortable than the XE-1. So this is a solid metal camera, with a nice look and feel. In fact it's so good that again Leica took the XD 7 to be the base of a Leica camera, the R4. With its 'full metal jacket' Minolta withstood the tendency to use the cheaper plastics of for example the XG 9. Even compared to todays computer steered measure-it-all fully automatic machines.īut not only electronics ticked all the right boxes, also mechanically this is an extraordinary camera. After stopping the lens down the camera performs a final check to ensure that the exposure will be correct. Besides this the XD 7's got more exposure tricks on its sleeves. In this case the camera chooses aperture and shutterspeed: programmed exposure. But if it's not possible to achieve the correct exposure it changes shutterspeed until exposure is right. Put everything on green and the camera starts with 1/125th shutter speed and chooses the aperture. ![]() In fact the later models with the green 's' (shutter priority mode) and the green '125' (1/125th shutter speed) were early program automats. In those days this was a very futuristic camera, because it possessed automatic exposure with aperture and shutter priority as well as fully metered manual exposure. With the XD 7 Minolta got it all right in 1977.
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