Minolta Maxxum 5 35mm SLR Kit w/ 28-80mm Lens
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Minolta Maxxum 5 35mm SLR Kit w/ 28-80mm Lens
Customer Review: LOVE this one
Summary: 5 Stars
This camera is the best I have.Lets you do pics. yourself or it will,if you do it still helps you.Best pics and the best money I ever spent.They know how to make a camera.Customer Review: An awesome camera.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is my frist "real" camera I have purchased. The picture quality is increadble. I compared some pictures that where taking with a Kodak Advantix F-600 to my Maxxum, you can't compare. The pictures is 100 times clear, shaper and colorful. Awesome. A great beginner camera. I just wonder how the Maxxum 7 and 9 are. A must purchase if you wish to get into photography.Customer Review: A very nice SLR camera
Summary: 4 Stars
My wife wanted to get into photography - so when she broke her latest Olympus point-and-shoot I decided to get get her a "real camera". We've had the Minolta Maxxum 5 for about a month now, and it has proven to be a very nice choice. I got it with a couple of lenses: the Minolta 28-80 AF and the 70-210 AF.It is small and light in your hand (not quite like a point-and-shoot, but definitely so for an SLR) and the automatic mode works very well. Out of the box it comes in the autofocus mode where as you bring it up to your eye it starts focusing; interesting in the first couple of days but I eventually took it out of that mode... I like it focusing when I press the button lightly.
That is one of the nice things about the camera... how configurable it is. You can select among tons of options and configure it to behave just as you'd like. Because of all the options I'd highly recommend some quality time with the manual :-)
My only dissatisfaction so far (and the only reason for the 4 and not 5 stars) has been not with the camera, but rather the Minolta lenses - actually something I did not think about ahead of time; don't get me wrong they are nice lenses but I have the following problem: focusing turns the front of the lens and this makes using certain filters (for example the Cokin system) problematic. It is fine for the typical circular filters like Tiffen and Hoya.
Overall I'm very happy with the Maxxum 5. I wanted to add that Amazon is an excellent place to buy it. Much cheaper than the stores, maybe not the cheapest on the internet (I found it for a little less), but they are trustworthy, fast shipping and reliable!
Customer Review: Great buy
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm new to the photography scene. I'm taking a photo 101 class and have never used a manual camera. The Maxxum 5 is an excellent camera. It's manual modes are numerous and all user friendly. But, if things get sticky you just hit the "panic" button and it goes into autofocus. Every photo is perfect. It's a great camera at a great price. I'm glad I made this buy. :)