Point & shoot SLR camera

[Minolfan]

Somehow I could't let it there on a rummage sale, on a table with all kinds of unnecessairy gear. Minolta 5000 with the not so high regarded 35-80mm 4.0-5.6 AF zoom. Something emotional brought me to pay € 18 for second AF SLR ever (I think). It takes 4 AAA batteries, so that is easy to get and not too expensive; I have reloadables. Program steered lightmetering. But metering can done by hand and it is possible to use MF lenses metered!
Not enough excuses for purchase I fear , but for my feeling it did not belong to stay between that rubbish.
Have put a film in it and it came to life!

[Attila]

Congrats !

[LucisPictor]

No need to excuse €18,-!

[Minolfan]

Thank you, I felt a bit ashamed with such a very automatic camera , that is not a funny junk pocketable P&S, but looks like a real camera. Certainly not pocketable! But a piece of history that became lonely in a dismal situation.
I am trying it, at first as it is designed. Shutter souds OK.

[Attila]

I have a Konica FP-1 which is also fully automatic except lens , that is still manual . Never mind enjoy your new toy !

[Laurence]

Yes! Enjoy the new camera! Remember, it's another tool, so why NOT
pick it up, especially at such a low price. One has to respect that these
cameras were manufactured in the heyday of beautiful electro-
mechanical precision.

[Minolfan]

Two point & shoot cameras with compairable zoom capacity:

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It is clear that the Minolta is not very pocketable! In my kitchen my scales gave it 820 gr, including the 4 AAA batteries, without film.

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[philslizzy]

It's nothing special by the standards of today but it works. A technological marvel at the time, it helped the serious photographer to concentrate on the image without messing about with settings.

A friend at work has the same camera and has had it since new and still uses it to this day.

Its a great body to use legacy lenses on, congrats on your bargain!!

It uses AA's thats good. I bought a Nikon F50 for just the lens. That camera uses a double Lithium battery that costs more than the body is worth!

Oh, by the way the nikon rubber grip is sticky - - yecchh whats the Minolta like?

[Lloydy]

I rescue all sorts of rubbish, sometimes I get a decent camera as well.

[Minolfan]

[sonyrokkor]

Congrats for your Minolta 5000. Is similar to the 7000 that I use to know?

[Minolfan]

Look alike but for the lazy user, a bit too simple and automatic. But you can use it manual too.

[sonyrokkor]

Thanks Minolfan.

[buerokratiehasser]

I would have to look it up but Minolta tried to nag you into buying their silly Expansion cards so you could get A/M mode. Don't remember exactly about the 5000 but the 3000 had auto-only.

As for the size, you should have got a Minolta 4 or 5 if that mattered ..

[Minolfan]

The 5000 can work in manual setting. Cards are introduced in the next generation.

[buerokratiehasser]

Ahh now I remember.. mine came with kaput viewfinder display (unadvertised of course).
No matter what I tried to tweak it (this and that mode, other batteries, other battery holder) the numbers stayed dark.

So I was, like, reduced to M mode and guessing/adjusting shorter/longer, which was pretty laborious.