scooterenterprises Loc: Long Island, NY

For sale is my gently use and well cared for Minolta X-700 camera body. Please see the photos an let me know if you have questions or are interested in purchasing this camera.
Asking $90.
$15. shipping and handling
Includes the original manual and a strap
Smoke free home

I.A.Teacher

If Film was readily available, this is a great camera. I have one plus a Minolta Maxxum 7000. Both have served me well when I was teaching photography 25 years ago.
Things have changed since then. Including the Jr. High School I taught at for 33 years. It is now an Academy.

scooterenterprises Loc: Long Island, NY

Ah yes. How things change indeed. I have an X-570 as well and may sell it too. Time to clean out for other photography products !
Thanks for looking and appreciate your reply.

Screamin Scott Loc: Marshfield Wi, Baltimore Md, now Dallas Ga

I have that model plus any number of others. The meters are non-functional on most, but not all, older film cameras anymore. Plus many take the unobtainable mercury batteries too. There are work a rounds for the batteries though.

scooterenterprises Loc: Long Island, NY

Hi Scott,
Very interesting. Thank you for the information.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Nice body, and yes, film is readily available. I purchase at a local camera store, but if you don't have one close by, B&H and many others have a large selection.

leftj Loc: Texas

There is an abundance of film available.

machia Loc: NJ

Ecktachrome coming back out in two months . Are you sure you want to sell that camera ?
Old MINOLTA user here with tons of ROKKOR glass . Canon and Nikon , you had nothing on us !😜

Screamin Scott Loc: Marshfield Wi, Baltimore Md, now Dallas Ga

Shame the old Rokkor lenses won't fit the Sony cameras. Minolta changed the mount when they introduced AF lenses and the older manual focus lenses won't work on the AF mounts. I have a number of old Minolta cameras & lenses myself. I use the lenses on a mirrorless camera via an adapter. Not the same as on an SLR though. I am too invested in digital to go back to film...

machia Loc: NJ

I shoot both digital and film . And on occasion I use either my Rokkor 58mm f1.4 or 85mm f1.7 on my DSLR with an adapter . The demise of Minolta reads like the Kodak story , troubled management and getting into digital too late .

Kuzano

The battery issues for most older film camera's was resolved during the early 70's by the change to currently available 357 batteries for most mfrs. The old mercury batteries stopped being the battery in play by the time the Olympus OM-2 came out (1974), as most mfrs switched away from the "mercury" standard.

Even then, and until today, there are a half dozen cheap solutions for the mercury battery demise. Batteries are no reason to avoid a good film camera. Many also had manual override for the metering systems.

Tons of perfectly usable film camera's in all ranges of amateur to professional level are sitting idled by the myths about battery availability. I have been selling film camera's for over 20 years and while some have failed meters, I have never delivered a camera to a buyer unless I could claim a working meter, And a working battery solution in place. Some of the solutions may involve a bit of maneuvering in finding a solution that will work and can be replaced if you know the solution.

Again, those who shy from film by false belief in the battery myths are simply too lazy to follow the solutions if they really wanted to shoot film.

Equipment, film and processing are all in place for the increasing interest in shooting film. Digital has failed to kill film, as some of the misinformed have railed.

Marionsho Loc: Kansas

Thanks for the info, Kuzano.
I loved my X700, until it was stolen out of my car, in Wichita, back in the early '80's.
Marion

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

Film IS readily available.