Minolta Maxxum 5 Date 35mm SLR Camera (Body only)

by Konica-Minolta

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• Item Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006RHOC
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,484 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 25, 2002

Product Description

A very small 35mm SLR camera with a 7-Point Auto Focusing System / Built-in Flash / Quartz Dating / Automatic Film Operation

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars VERY light and feature-rich, perfect for advanced amateurs, March 30, 2003

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Sudipto K. Haldar "Sudipto" (Robbinsville, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Minolta Maxxum 5 Date 35mm SLR Camera (Body only) (Electronics)

This camera is really marvelous, pretty light to lug around and superb performance. The following features are the ones which makes it a great buy for the price
- Eye Start (I love it, this feature is not there in Maxxum 4)
- 9 point autofocus, focus lock
- fully automatic mode, shutter-priority/aperture-priority and fully manual modes
- red-eye reduction, in-built pop-up flash
- convenient pre-set program modes (portrait,landscape,close-up,sports and night portrait)
- upto 9 multiple exposures

the film loading mechanism is smooth and easy, though it could have done with a warning message (rather than a blinking '0') when film is not loaded properly.

Has focus indicator, locks shutter when still focussing (can happen when using zoom telephoto lenses), has exposure range warnings, shutter speed warnings (if the recommended aperture or shutter speed is outside the range of your lens), the eye-sensor could have been better, but this drawback can be overcome with the exposure preview button, all in all I'm very satisfied with this camera.

Note: don't compare it with professional grade cameras like Nikon F 100... this camera does not have a color database like the pro-grades, so your exposure might be off by 1-2 stops when shooting extremely bright/dark subjects due to 'mid-tone'ing.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent camera, September 18, 2005

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Joseph Rutsky (Saratoga Springs, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Minolta Maxxum 5 Date 35mm SLR Camera (Body only) (Electronics)

I have one of these that I use on occasion. I shoot with a Digital SLR, but I do have to tell you that this camera really surprised me. The clarity of the pictures is astounding! I got mine with the 28-100mm zoom lens and I love it. I use it to take film shots of landscapes and portraits and compare them to the digital shots I get from my Nikon D-70.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love this!, February 1, 2011

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Gabrielp De Carval "GabrielPC" (Porto Alegre, Brazil) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Minolta Maxxum 5 Date 35mm SLR Camera (Body only) (Electronics)

My first one was damaged during a robbery. I bought just the same camera, and it is working as perfect as the first one!! The pictures are great, can be used in the full auto mode with very nice results, and the manual modes are all great for the professional which like to play with this old film cameras! Ilove to insert the film, rear the real "click" and the rewinding noise... and with my 70-300mm lenses, uauauau!! awesome pictures!