Minolta XE

Minolta XE
Minolta XE

Cutaway of a Minolta XE camera
Type 35 mm SLR camera
Lens mount Minolta SR mount
Focus manual
Exposure Aperture priority or manual
Flash hot shoe

The Minolta XE, known as the XE-1 in Europe and the XE-7 in North America, is a manual focus, 35 mm single-lens reflex camera produced by Minolta of Japan between 1974 and 1977.[1] It was developed in collaboration with Leica Camera and has many similarities to the Leica R3.

The XE uses a Leitz-Copal electronic, vertically-traveling, metal blade focal plane shutter supporting exposure times of 1/1000 of a second to four seconds. In aperture priority auto-exposure mode, the shutter speed is varied steplessly; in manual mode, the shutter speeds are selected in whole stop increments. The camera has a very short shutter lag of about 38ms, among the best for a SLRs regardless of manufacturer.

References

  1. ^ "XE-7". Manual Minolta. http://members.aol.com/manualminolta/xe7.htm. Retrieved 2007-09-17.