Minolta Dynax 500si

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Minolta 500si

4 Dec 21st, 2000

Advantages:
Has most of the features needed, good all - round performace

Disadvantages:
featureset not perfect, some technology niggles

Recommendable: No 

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I bought this camera a few years ago as a replacement for my old Zenit, on the basis of a few magazine reviews and a shop test. It's a competent camera but it doesn't do anything particularly well. Many of the modes/functions it has are only useful for beginners, while it's missing some that you might hope to find, e.g. frame-forwards control (for when you want to do multiple exposures). The "predictive" autofocus is laughable - if you want to capture a moving subject you're best off pre-focusing. The shutter relese/focus stopped working properly after a few months, though in fairness other cameras somtimes have the same problem. Of it's contemporaries the Pentax MZ-5 was/is the best buy - it has all the essential features, while the superfluous are stripped away to leave a smaller body. 

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