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From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
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Subject: Re: Manual/Aperture/Program: Old vs. New Minolta
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Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 13:56:39 EST
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Interesting.  I also have an old (SRT-101) and new (X-570) Minolta, and
I use the newer body most of the time, even though I use it on manual
a substantial portion of that time.  Reasons are probably: It displays
the aperture in the finder, unlike the SRT-101.  On manual, it displays
both set and metered shutter speeds, making "match-needle" metering
possible if a bit less convenient than the SRT-101.  And the metering
is done with a silicon photocell, with none of the blindness and slow
response problems of the CdS cell in the older camera.
And I can switch it to auto if I want that, including the use of TTL flash.

The X-700, on the other hand, does not display the set shutter speed in
manual, making it inferior to the X-570 in that respect - that, plus
believing that I'd never use program mode, caused me to buy the X-570.