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| Photograph Quality | 9/10   |
|---|---|
| Features | 8.7/10 |
| Ease of Use | 9.4/10 |
| Value for Money | 9.7/10 |
| Reviewer Rating | 8.8/10 |
| Overall Rating | 8.7/10 |
| Nikon F75 35mm Film Camera |  | £183.18Free P&P |
Full review by
opopododo
on 28th Jul 2008
User Rating : 8
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Good Points: Well laid out controls. Viewfinder prism focus screen is my favourite type - works really well. Simple and well thought out LED viewfinder metering giving suggested and actual shutter speed while in manual mode. Shutter trigger. Self timer. Solid build. Reliable.
Bad Points: Fabric shutter (slow flash sync (1/60th) and prone to rot in the wrong conditions (rare but it happens)). A bit heavy. No window to see the film case (is handy if you don't know how many on the roll) - instead it has a pocket for you to slot the label from the box you got the film in. Difficult to see auto shutter speed in viewfinder in low light.
General comments: Someone mentioned the OM-10 - the Minolta X-300 is much better laid out - like the OM-2 - the advantage with an OM-2 or OM-10 would be lenses available but the controls on the OM-10 are a nightmare - you turn a knob and you accidentally turn another at the same time.
The X-300 is well engineered with everything having a good positive feel.
opopododo's review and ratings | 175 words
Review by
bob1234
on 24th Feb 2008
User Rating : 10
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0
My dad has a Minolta X-300 I have a Panasonic Lunmix TZ3 at the moment best compact camera in the world but I would love to have a manual slr zoom like the Minolta X300
bob1234's full review | 35 words
Review by
kicuch
on 6th Oct 2007
User Rating : 10
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0
My best camera ever! After that I had Minolta 8000i now I use D80 - still miss performance of my good old X-300!
kicuch's full review | 50 words
Review by
RUBBER2405
expert review 
on 14th Jul 2007
User Rating : 8
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0
A very good camera. Quite large for an SLR compared to say, the Olympus OM10, which is in greater supply.
the Minolta lenses are great. I have bought a 70-210mm Minolta MD lens (fantastic quality for a zoom lens), a sigma 28mm wide angle, which has half stops on it and is very good quality for build and photo quality, and a rubber eye cup.
That lot cost me about £250 about 7-8 years ago. The Minolta lenses are hard to get hold of now, they have been looked after anyway. It has full manua ...
RUBBER2405's full review | 242 words | 1 comment added.
Review by
kavindu
on 24th Mar 2004
User Rating : 8
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I agree this Minolta X-300 is a good 35mm SLR camara but it needs more shutter speeds only problem is I have to depend on the battery always.Picture quality is excellent.
kavindu's full review | 86 words | 1 comment added.
Review by
Stanley Wong.
expert review
on 3rd Mar 2003
User Rating : 9
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+11
I bought my Minolta X-300 (the older one with metal body) sometime in 1995. I sold it for SGD$250 and bought a X-700 (big mistake!). Several cameras and many years later, I bought back the same X-300 for SGD$125. The difference is that this time, I recognize the quality of the lens and camera body.
The Minolta X-300 is a metal body, manual focus camera with Aperature Priority (AUTO) mode. It does not have DOF preview and does rely on batteries (no battery-no click). It has a shutter sp ...
Stanley Wong.'s full review | 321 words | 11 comments added.
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