The Maxxum 7000 offers program, shutter-priority, aperture-priority, and manual modes. This was the way the industry was going: Canon and Nikon introduced plastic-bodied SLRs at around the same time. Minolta also abandoned the mostly metal bodies of their earlier cameras for an all-plastic body. I gather that Minolta sold this camera primarily in a kit with a 35-70mm f/4 zoom lens, but almost all of the Maxxum 7000s I found on eBay came with this 50mm prime lens. Sony’s α-series digital cameras still use this mount my 7000’s 50mm f/1.7 AF Maxxum lens clips right onto the latest Sony cameras. With the Maxxum line, Minolta scrapped its older MC and MD lens mounts for a new fully electronic A mount. Experienced photographers eventually came around. Chips in the lenses and accessories talk to chips in the camera body, changing settings inside the camera for best operation - groundbreaking stuff in 1985, when this camera was introduced.Įxperienced photographers were wary. Their all-mechanical cameras seldom failed. But the siren song of auto-everything was too much for the consumer market, which flocked to this camera and the many imitators that followed. The Maxxum 7000 put the motors in the body, and all the other manufacturers soon followed.
It wasn’t the first autofocus SLR, but the few that came before it had all of the focusing motors in the lenses. The lens focuses quickly and the camera is very responsive to the user.The Minolta Maxxum 7000 broke new ground: it was the first 35mm SLR with an in-body autofocus system.
The controls are easily accessed, and the wheel in the front of the camera controls the aperture when you are in A mode, and other settings as you rotate the mode dial are managed via the wheel. If you have small hands, this is a great choice for an AF SLR. One thing that caught my attention right away - this has to be the lightest, compact and full-featured SLR that I have used. I am not going to go into a full review of the camera's features and settings, since they are already online elsewhere. It features eye-start, and just about every setting one might want to use in a film SLR camera. It helped that it had a manual, since this is a feature-packed SLR. Once I put new batteries (2 CR-2) in it, it came to life. Since then, I acquired a Minolta Maxxum 5 with a 24-85mm lens. As I recently tested a Maxxum QTsi and was quite pleased with the results, it is just a P&S camera. I also have seen a plethora of used Maxxums of various types in thrift shops, etc., sitting there, forlornly waiting for a new owner. While that camera had something going for it when it first came out, it was slow and a bit clunky in the user interface, compared to modern AF SLRs. I have only used a Minolta auto-focus camera a few times in the past - A neighbor wanted me to sell her Minolta Maxxum 7000 and lenses for her, so I tested everything out with a roll of film before I did so.
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