Minolta XD-5

Sale Price:A$200.00 Original Price:A$300.00
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Minolta XD-5

All cameras come with a 3 month warranty from purchase date.

This kit includes:

— Minolta XD-5 Body
— Minolta Auto Winder D
+ Original Minolta Camera Strap
— Minolta MC Rokkor—PF 50mm f/1.7

Description:

The Minolta XD-5, a 'junior' and a less pricey version of the much-acclaimed professional-quality Minolta XD (XD-7 in the US, XD-11 in Europe), was introduced by Minolta of Japan in 1979, a couple of years after the launch of the XD.

The XD-5 has a similar design and build functionally as the XD (XD-7 / XD-11), which incidentally, was developed in conjunction with Leica and the subsequent release of the Leica R4, and later, the R5, R6, and R7 SLR film cameras. While the mechanical and electronic components of both series, including the electronically-controlled Seiko shutter, are said to be identical, the XD-5 does not come with the aperture readout in the viewfinder, viewfinder blind, and film safe load indicator. Both series, however, come with the choice of a metering system that includes metered-manual, shutter- and aperture-priority exposure modes.

Camera-wise, the Minolta XD-5 is a manual focus auto-exposure 35mm SLR film camera with an electronically controlled vertical-travel metal-plate focal-plane shutter with a (stepless in automatic mode, stepped in manual mode) speed range from 1 second to 1/1000th second, plus 'X' (1/100 sec.), and 'B' and 'O' (1/100 sec.) which can operate without batteries.

Metering on the XD-5 is TTL (Through-the-Lens) center-weighted, and the camera is usable with film speed rated at ISO 12 to 3200, with -2 to +2 exposure compensation in both manual or metered modes. The XD-5 is also fitted with a depth-of-field preview button, an 'X' sync terminal, and a variable 10-second delay self-timer activated by the shutter release button.

Source: https://www.imagingpixel.com/p/minolta-xd-5.html

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