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Photograph Quality9/10 Based on 5 ratings
Features8.7/10
Ease of Use9.4/10 Based on 5 ratings
Value for Money9.7/10
Reviewer Rating8.8/10
Overall Rating8.7/10 Based on 11 ratings
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6- Minolta X-300 Reviews

  • Full review by
    opopododo Rank: Corporal
    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.
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  • Review by
    bob1234
    on 24th Feb 2008


    User Rating : 10
    Respect : 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
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  • Review by
    kicuch
    on 6th Oct 2007


    User Rating : 10
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    My best camera ever! After that I had Minolta 8000i now I use D80 - still miss performance of my good old X-300!
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    RUBBER2405 Rank: Staff Sergeant
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    on 14th Jul 2007


    User Rating : 8
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    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 ...
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  • Review by
    kavindu
    on 24th Mar 2004


    User Rating : 8
    Respect : 0

    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.
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  • Review by
    Stanley Wong. Rank: Lance Corporal
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    on 3rd Mar 2003


    User Rating : 9
    Respect : +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 ...
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