I bought my Minolta XG-M in 1982 and used it some 20 years, until 2002 when the film advance froze-up. For most of those 20 years I had used the camera with an add-on motor-drive, which I was told by the repairman I took it to that the XG-M, while ostensibly designed for use with a motor-drive, hence the 'M' designation, the internal mechanism wasn't all that robust as the motor-drive interface was a sort of late idea rushed into production (that being said, i did get 20 years of service out of it and have well over 5,000 images in my archive that I took with the camera). I replaced it with a Minolta X-700, which was my last film camera (last images shots in 2006). Note that I've still got the X-700, with the motor-drive, and a couple of rolls of film in the fridge, so who knows, maybe someday I'll dust it off and see if it still works (and see if the film is still good)