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At present I am retired and spending my time mostly on fishing and photography. I bought my first SLR way back in 1982. It was a Minolta XG1. My last film camera was the Maxxum 9000. When the fantastic Sony Alpha 100 was launched, I changed over to the digital system. My Alpha 580 was acquired followed closely by my Alpha 77.

My main interest in photography is lifestyles, sports, sceneries, nature, birds and macro shots. Lately, I have spend more time on bird and nature shooting. As a regular contributer to some fishing magazines, I shoot quite a lot of photographs of anglers too....hence my photography blog is named 'SHOOT THE HOOKER'.



Having grown up near the confluence of two, the Kangsar and the Perak Rivers, it is not surprising that one of my main interest is fishing. My younger days were spent swimming and fishing.... with a bamboo pole, line and small hooks.Now while fishing, my friends and I do take a lot of photographs of anglers in action. The anglers must be careful so as not to accidentally hook on to a photographer. So I think as a reminder, I would like to name my fishing blog as 'HOOK THE SHOOTER'.

Sunday, April 29, 2012

The Minolta Legacy 1980 - 1989.

The  Minolta Legacy continues 1980 - 1989.

1980. Minolta X-7.
A Minolta auto exposure aperture priority 35mm SLR.




1980. Minolta Weathermatic A 110 Camera.
Minolta's first water-resistant (under-water in swimming pools by today's standard) 110 camera.



1981. Minolta CLE 35mm Rangefinder Camera System.
The world's first interchangable lens, aperture priority, rangefinder camera.






1981. Minolta X700.
Winner of the first "European Camera Of The Year" award.






1982. Minolta Hi-Matic AF-2 MD.
An AF 35mm electronic leaf shutter with built-in motor wind camera.



1983. Minolta AF-C.
An extremely compact 35mm leaf shutter camera. It had sliding cover.





1983. Minolta Disc 7.
Minolta's first Disc (Kodak's 1982 Disc film format) camera




1983. Minolta X-600 35mm SLR.
Minolta's first 35mm SLR with electronic focus detector (very rare).





1983. Minolta X-500/X-570 35mm SLR.
A 35mm aperture priority TTL flash metering SLR camera.





1983. Minolta Courreges ac301 Disc camera
Designed by Andres Courreges.





1984. Minolta AF-E/Freedom II.
35mm AF leaf-shutter camera.




1984. Minolta AF-Sv/Talker/Talkman.
A 35mm with voice warning camera.





1985. Minolta 7000/Maxxum 7000.
The worl'd first 35mm SLR with integrated autofocus. Winner of
"Inter-camera International", "Camera Grand Prix 1985" and the 1985 "European Camera Of The Year" awards.




1985. Minolta AF-T.
A 35mm leaf shutter camera with a built in telephoto and standard lens.





1985. Minolta 9000/Maxxum 9000.
A 5 frames per second professional AF camera.





1986. Minolta AF-Z.
A 35mm leaf shutter AF camera with very large view finder.





1986. Minolta 5000 or Maxxum 5000.
A more economical version of the Minolta 7000.





1987. Minolta AF-DL or Freedom Dual.
A 35mm leaf shutter camera with a built in standard and telephoto lens with up to 52mm close up capability.



1987. Minolta Weathermatic 35DL or Dual.
Minolta's first all weather (can be used underwater) 35mm camera.





1988. Minolta Dynax/Maxxum 7000i.
A 35mm AF with predictive focus control and intelligent cards. Winner of 1988 "European Camera of the year" award.




1989. Minolta AF-Zoom 90 or Freedom Zoom 90.
A program leaf shutter camera.






1989. Minolta Dynax 3000i or Maxxum 3000i.
At its launch, it was touted as the world's lightest SLR.





1989. Minolta Dynax 5000i or Maxxum 5000i.
Minolta's first SLR with built in flash.




Ref: photoclubalpha. http://www.photoclubalpha.com/minolta-history-seven-decades/5

















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