I tried to notify each person but if I missed anyone, the lens have been claimed. I was surprised that so many Minolta's are still out there. RMJ

The lens have been claimed. I was surprised that so many Minolta's are still out there. RMJ

The lens have been claimed. I was surprised that so many Minolta's are still out there. RMJ

Greetings, you have the earliest date/time stamp so if you want the lens send me your address. The $15.00 is a guess. I'll send them UPS and write the cost on the box, just send me a check for that amount and enjoy.

Robert M Jones
4912 Meadows Encore Ave
Las Vegas, NV 89131
702-238-6618 cell

Cleaned out the closet, finally, and found: Maxxum manual for 7000i, 2 Minolta lens, 50mm, 1.4 and 35-80mm 1.4-5.6. plus several filters. FREE if you pay the postage, $15.00. send a private message and we'll swap address's and they are yours. Sold camera on eBay years ago. RMJ

Well if they've got your camera, then they got you by the short hairs. If there is a problem that they don't want to make public, then they can say most anything and you have no recourse. I really didn't know about shutter delay because I'd never used it so doubt that was my setup, just because they said so. But, as you say, the camera works fine now and that was the objective.

Costa Rica and Ecuador have some beautiful hummers. I've been down several times to enjoy "shooting" them.

No, I haven't called them. The camera works like I want, after I learned to check ALL the settings, so I didn't think it would do much good.

Excellent advice which I complied with when I first got the camera. Admittedly I haven't gone through the manual (I have several) in awhile so it is obviously time to do it again. Yep, there are a LOT of things in there that I never use, guess someone does, i.e. someday I'll make a video. Maybe.

Nope, only time I use the self timer is when I want to get in a family picture or such like.

My d500 was working fine, I had taken a few shots and then drove out in the country for some fall color shots. Bummer, the shutter would open apparently but wouldn't close for some period of time. Tried several setups, no change. Did a reset, no change. Set everything in manual and got some shots. Got home and mailed it to Nikon repair in Los Angles. Two days later got the bill by email, paid it and 5 days later the camera was home! Boy was I happy with that service since I had read some comments about Nikon's poor service. Then I read the report. Claimed the camera setup was with a 2 second delay in the shutter release. Ain't no way!!! I shoot mostly birds in flight and a few landscapes but I didn't even know such a setting was available. O.K. that's my fault, I haven't memorized all the menus after two years and have NEVER used shutter delay. But after all the cameras I've had, and the d500 for two years, I would definitely know if I had setup a shutter delay. So, I got fast service with a hopefully thorough checkout and the camera works fine for $261, but I really wonder what was wrong with the shutter. BTW I looked at the menu and they had "left" in with a 2 second shutter delay! I turned it off. Oh well, now I know where it is. Attached are some flight shots and a landscape just for fun

It's been 50 years but I could still mark some of our targets today if I had a map. The tracers were supposed to burn out before they hit the ground but it's entirely possible they were not 3,000 ft above the ground in a 30 degree bank which was the designed altitude to hit the target, as seen through the pipper, printed on a piece of plastic, mounted on the side window. Had an Arc Light near DaNang one night, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, etc for several minutes. The next day flight out we could see the craters, we called them peter tracks across the jungle. We didn't fire on targets in the daytime, day flights were mostly courier stuff.

Thank you, I flew Spooky there in 68-69. Too bad the politicians wouldn't let us do our job.

My first commercial flight was on a Connie when I flew to San Antonio/Lackland to report for active duty and pilot training, July 1958. Ye Gads I'm getting old!

Well, after 81 years I've learned to ignore those that don't have anything to say. I didn't say it but I'm referring to the Nikon batteries in the camera. I've read the manual and as someone said, lots of things are recommendations so sometime I follow other times I do what I've learned works better for me.