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Maxxum 7xi/7D ; Expansion cards and instructions from Minolta
Hi , I have a Minolta Maxxum 7xi . Now , 14 yeras after I purchased it , I am looking to find instruction sheets for the creative expansion cards that it uses. I am seriously considering skipping to the Minolta Maxxum 7D ( digital ) sooner rather than later . Can anyone tell me if the nice functions of those expansion cards on the 35mm 7xi are already built in to the Maxxum 7D ? Also , as far as the 35 mm 7xi goes I would really like to get instruction sheets for some of the cards I plan on purchasing from eBay(?) . Any ideas where I may be able to find them ? All I have is the Hove publication on the Maxxum 7xi -- which writes about the cards but not in detail ... Thanks in advance .. |
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Maxxum 7xi/7D ; Expansion cards and instructions from Minolta
On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 01:52:49 +1000, "veritas"
wrote: Hi , I have a Minolta Maxxum 7xi . Now , 14 yeras after I purchased it , I am looking to find instruction sheets for the creative expansion cards that it uses. I am seriously considering skipping to the Minolta Maxxum 7D ( digital ) sooner rather than later . Can anyone tell me if the nice functions of those expansion cards on the 35mm 7xi are already built in to the Maxxum 7D ? Also , as far as the 35 mm 7xi goes I would really like to get instruction sheets for some of the cards I plan on purchasing from eBay(?) . Any ideas where I may be able to find them ? All I have is the Hove publication on the Maxxum 7xi -- which writes about the cards but not in detail ... Thanks in advance .. Sorry but the Minolta 7D ship has sailed. I bought one after christmas 2005 and about three weeks later Minolta announced they were getting out of the camera business. Sony purchased their technology and now has out a 10 megapixel camera based on the Minolta technology. Errol Groff |
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Maxxum 7xi/7D ; Expansion cards and instructions from Minolta
"Errol Groff" wrote in message ... On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 01:52:49 +1000, "veritas" wrote: Hi , I have a Minolta Maxxum 7xi . Now , 14 yeras after I purchased it , I am looking to find instruction sheets for the creative expansion cards that it uses. I am seriously considering skipping to the Minolta Maxxum 7D ( digital ) sooner rather than later . Can anyone tell me if the nice functions of those expansion cards on the 35mm 7xi are already built in to the Maxxum 7D ? Also , as far as the 35 mm 7xi goes I would really like to get instruction sheets for some of the cards I plan on purchasing from eBay(?) . Any ideas where I may be able to find them ? All I have is the Hove publication on the Maxxum 7xi -- which writes about the cards but not in detail ... Thanks in advance .. Sorry but the Minolta 7D ship has sailed. I bought one after christmas 2005 and about three weeks later Minolta announced they were getting out of the camera business. Sony purchased their technology and now has out a 10 megapixel camera based on the Minolta technology. Errol Groff So what are you going to do now ? |
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Maxxum 7xi/7D ; Expansion cards and instructions from Minolta
"veritas" schreef in bericht u... "Errol Groff" wrote in message Hi , I have a Minolta Maxxum 7xi . Now , 14 yeras after I purchased it , I am looking to find instruction sheets for the creative expansion cards that it uses. I am seriously considering skipping to the Minolta Maxxum 7D ( digital ) sooner rather than later . Can anyone tell me if the nice functions of those expansion cards on the 35mm 7xi are already built in to the Maxxum 7D ? A lot of functions of the expansion cards are nowadays build into the modern camera. Some point and shoot camera's have often more functions build in. The DSlr's only have a few functions build in. (Portret, sports, closup, night exposure are normally present.) Minolta had some functions which can not be delivered by the modern camera. On the 7xi they introduced the 'automatic' zoom. So switching the camera on it decided what the 'initial' zoom position should be. Another option with the 'child' card was that the child could be kept the same 'size' in the picture even if the child was moving to or from the camera. Another function was showing more wide angle in the viewfinder than the the picture would take. (During the picture taking the lens would zoom in, take the picture and zoom out). All this was offcourse limited by the lenses zoom capabilities. All these zoom functions I have never seen again on a SLR (or DSLR) there might be some point and shoot camera's witch had something similar to the 'child' function. Most off the cards were to expensive for the 'extra' functionality those cards offered, but I know off people who for example bought the close up expansion card because they did a lot of closeup's and did not have the knowledge to do it themselves. Remember there are only a few parameters which actually make the picture. (location 3 coordinates, direction and rotation 3 parameters, time 1 parameter these seven are determined by holding the camera and pushing the shutterrelease). Then there are only four parameters: shutterspeet, aperature, zoom, focusdistance, which are controled by the camera. But then there are hundreds of methods to set these parameters. The expansion card just added to the methods of setting the parameters not to expanding the number of parameters or expanding the parameters. I do ignore film-, ccd parameters, postprocessing and quality. ben. Also , as far as the 35 mm 7xi goes I would really like to get instruction sheets for some of the cards I plan on purchasing from eBay(?) . Any ideas where I may be able to find them ? All I have is the Hove publication on the Maxxum 7xi -- which writes about the cards but not in detail ... Thanks in advance .. |
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Maxxum 7xi/7D ; Expansion cards and instructions from Minolta
"veritas" wrote in message u... "Errol Groff" wrote in message ... On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 01:52:49 +1000, "veritas" wrote: Hi , I have a Minolta Maxxum 7xi . Now , 14 yeras after I purchased it , I am looking to find instruction sheets for the creative expansion cards that it uses. I am seriously considering skipping to the Minolta Maxxum 7D ( digital ) sooner rather than later . Can anyone tell me if the nice functions of those expansion cards on the 35mm 7xi are already built in to the Maxxum 7D ? Also , as far as the 35 mm 7xi goes I would really like to get instruction sheets for some of the cards I plan on purchasing from eBay(?) . Any ideas where I may be able to find them ? All I have is the Hove publication on the Maxxum 7xi -- which writes about the cards but not in detail ... Thanks in advance .. Sorry but the Minolta 7D ship has sailed. I bought one after christmas 2005 and about three weeks later Minolta announced they were getting out of the camera business. Sony purchased their technology and now has out a 10 megapixel camera based on the Minolta technology. Errol Groff So what are you going to do now ? He will probably do what I am doing with my KM-5400 Dimage film scanner.....Use the hell out of it until it breaks, and then send it off to Sony, and hope they will fix it......... |
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Maxxum 7xi/7D ; Expansion cards and instructions from Minolta
"Ben Brugman" wrote in message ... "veritas" schreef in bericht u... "Errol Groff" wrote in message Hi , I have a Minolta Maxxum 7xi . Now , 14 yeras after I purchased it , I am looking to find instruction sheets for the creative expansion cards that it uses. I am seriously considering skipping to the Minolta Maxxum 7D ( digital ) sooner rather than later . Can anyone tell me if the nice functions of those expansion cards on the 35mm 7xi are already built in to the Maxxum 7D ? A lot of functions of the expansion cards are nowadays build into the modern camera. Some point and shoot camera's have often more functions build in. The DSlr's only have a few functions build in. (Portret, sports, closup, night exposure are normally present.) Minolta had some functions which can not be delivered by the modern camera. On the 7xi they introduced the 'automatic' zoom. So switching the camera on it decided what the 'initial' zoom position should be. Another option with the 'child' card was that the child could be kept the same 'size' in the picture even if the child was moving to or from the camera. Another function was showing more wide angle in the viewfinder than the the picture would take. (During the picture taking the lens would zoom in, take the picture and zoom out). All this was offcourse limited by the lenses zoom capabilities. Which cards did the things you describe above ? Do you remember what they were called ? Peter |
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Maxxum 7xi/7D ; Expansion cards and instructions from Minolta
"veritas" schreef in bericht u... "Ben Brugman" wrote in message ... "veritas" schreef in bericht u... "Errol Groff" wrote in message Hi , I have a Minolta Maxxum 7xi . Now , 14 yeras after I purchased it , I am looking to find instruction sheets for the creative expansion cards that it uses. I am seriously considering skipping to the Minolta Maxxum 7D ( digital ) sooner rather than later . Can anyone tell me if the nice functions of those expansion cards on the 35mm 7xi are already built in to the Maxxum 7D ? A lot of functions of the expansion cards are nowadays build into the modern camera. Some point and shoot camera's have often more functions build in. The DSlr's only have a few functions build in. (Portret, sports, closup, night exposure are normally present.) Minolta had some functions which can not be delivered by the modern camera. On the 7xi they introduced the 'automatic' zoom. So switching the camera on it decided what the 'initial' zoom position should be. Another option with the 'child' card was that the child could be kept the same 'size' in the picture even if the child was moving to or from the camera. Another function was showing more wide angle in the viewfinder than the the picture would take. (During the picture taking the lens would zoom in, take the picture and zoom out). All this was offcourse limited by the lenses zoom capabilities. Which cards did the things you describe above ? Do you remember what they were called ? Standard on the camera was the Wide-View mode. In the Wide-view mode the lens chooses a shorter focal length thereby giving 150% of the normal view in the viewfinder. Image-Size Lock. This was a button on the lens tube of the xi-zoomlenses. Pressing this button kept the subject on a constant enlargement. There was a child card, but the brochures are not totally clear what that did. (It uses Automatic Programmed Zoom, but what that exactly did is nog clear). On the next camera Minolta (700si) abandonned the automatic zoom. The card system was called the Creatieve Chip Card System. Cards (in the brochure) : Travel Card Child Card Background Priority Card Panning Card Customized Function Card xi Sports Action Card Multiple Exposure Card Exposure Bracketing Card Flash Bracketing Card Automatic Program Shift Card Fantasy Effect Card Multi-Spot Memory Card Portait Card Close-up Card Card Highlight/Shadow Card Data Memory Card Mosty off the functions of the cards are now fairly standard on a lot of camera's. The Data Memory Card could hold information for up to 40 pictures. (shutterspeed, aperature, focallength, max aperature, exposure correction.) That was new in the camera of this pricerange in those days. All cards doing something with zoom was also inovative, it just never has cought on. Most people would only buy one or two cards or none. Only one card could be used at the time, so you could not use the memory card in combination with another card. Most card did not add to the capabilities of the camera, only to the way those capabilities could be reached. Ben. Peter |
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