The 5 was an easy-to-use, compact, and feature-packed film camera using core ... into a small and light silver-colored SLR camera body. Like all other autofocus Minolta cameras, it used the ...

Canon and Nikon are not the only companies out there that produced quality 35mm film SLR cameras. The marketplace was filled with them in decades past, including companies like Minolta and Leica.

But decades ago, in the heyday of film, the field was ... Five years later, the Minolta Maxxum 7000 Alpha Mount Camera would become the first autofocus 35mm SLR with an in-camera motor.