CcrlR From United States of America, joined Aug 2001, 2203 posts, RR: 1 Posted (11 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 1075 times:
Which is the best zoom camera to buy cause I saw some on sale(a Nikon and Minolta). Which one is the best one out of those two? I want to know? Which one?!
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Jwenting From Netherlands, joined Apr 2001, 10213 posts, RR: 21 Reply 1, posted (11 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 1016 times:
Which types?
Both Minolta and Nikon make excellent cameras. Nikon has a larger choice in lenses available themselves, which may be good.
Lenses for Minolta MD mount are getting hard to get. There are few new ones and happy users tend to hang onto their old ones (I know I do ).
Both old Minoltas and old Nikons are turning up regularly at camera collectors events for near newprice (this for 20 year old cameras).
Lately, Minolta is reported to be having some problems with the reliability of their electronics, causing sudden failures which are hard to fix.
Da fwog From United Kingdom, joined Aug 1999, 867 posts, RR: 9 Reply 2, posted (11 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 994 times:
Zoom camera? You mean zoom compact camera? Don't buy it! Save you money and buy a proper SLR instead. A zoom compact will generally not give you the quality you desire, especially if you intend uploading photos to Airliners.net, regardless of whether it is a Nikon, Minolta, Canon, Pentax or anyone else's.
JayDavis From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 2000 posts, RR: 18 Reply 3, posted (11 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 993 times:
Don't buy a small, point and shoot camera, you won't like it. Save your money and then go buy some good equipment, buy Canon !
Just kidding to all the Nikon users, many of whom are my good friends.
Both Canon and Nikon make excellent camera lines, but for a quality 35mm system, I'd only recommend those two in my personal opinion.
Jwenting From Netherlands, joined Apr 2001, 10213 posts, RR: 21 Reply 5, posted (11 years 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 940 times:
Extra300, I have a manual Minolta that gives excellent service (and has for 20 years). Only reason I switched to Nikon for AF was the recent troubles Minolta has been having with their electronics (plus Minolta stopping with rental lenses, not that I ever used it, but who knows what will happen in the future).
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