I’ve had Minolta film SLRs in bygone times and been ... You’d prefer to have a camera with an optical zoom lens for greater versatility, rather than relying on digital zoom.

Like all other autofocus Minolta cameras, it used the same lenses initially offered in the mid-1980s. Also available was a battery grip (BP-200) for extended 35 mm film shooting. The Maxxum 3 and ...