Tag: XG

• 52 Cameras – Week 23 results – Minolta XG9

  As this project progresses, I begin to wonder how professional reviewers do their jobs. “It was a nice enough car, but it was silver. I prefer blue ones.” “It was, um, a movie. Some people got shot, stuff blew up. The gratuitous sex scene was pretty good. Go see it if it's raining today.” I […]

  mack505

  August 17, 2013

  52 cameras

  Minolta, slr, Velvia, XG

• 52 Cameras – Week 23 – Minolta XG9

  I'm in an SLR mood this week. The Minolta XG9 was introduced in 1979. It is a manual focus, aperture priority camera with a manual override mode. Interestingly, the meter does not function in the manual mode. The shutter is electronic and will not function without batteries. One interesting feature is the metering. Simply touching […]

  mack505

  August 2, 2013

  52 cameras

  Minolta, slr, XG