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Posted: 19 Sep 2020


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These cameras are essentially all the same camera - a Minolta X-300/X-370, introduced in 1984. It was released in different markets around the world with different names; it was updated with slightly different features and styling; and then Minolta moved production from Japan to a Chinese factory, which made Seagull cameras for the Chinese market, and Seagull obtained a license to make copies of it. Which they did and used a variety of different names for their clones. And their website still lists this camera as being for sale, so it's still being made after almost 40 years! This is my collection of these Minoltas and it's clones:

Column 1:
Minolta X-300 (black and silver body, Europe, 1984)
Minolta X-300 (all-black body, Europe, 1984)
Minolta X-370 (black and silver body, North America, 1984)
Minolta X-370 (black and silver body, North America, 1984)
Minolta X-7A (all-black version of the X-370, North America, 1985)

Column 2:
Minolta X-7A (all-black version of the X-370, North America, 1985)
Minolta X-7A (all-black version of the X-370, North America, 1985)
Minolta X-300s (all-black body, updated styling of the X-300, Europe, 1990)
Minolta X-370n (all-black body, updated styling of the X-370, North America, 1990)
Minolta X-9 (all-black body, updated features, North America, 1990)

Column 3:
Minolta X-370s (all-black body, updated features, Minolta X-300/X-370 clone, 1995 - Minolta's last manual focus camera)
Seagull DF-300 (black and silver body, Minolta X-300 clone)
Seagull DF-300 (all-black body, Minolta X-300 clone)
Seagull DF-300x (all-black body, Minolta X-300 clone)
Centon DF-300 (all-black body, Minolta X-300 clone, Great Britain)

Column 4:
Carena DF-300 (black and silver body, Minolta X-300 clone, Germany)
Carena SX-300 (all-black body, Minolta X-300 clone, Germany)
Soligor SR-300 MD (all-black body, Minolta X-300 clone)
Kalimar KX 5000 (all-black body, updated styling, Minolta X-300s/X-370n clone)
Kalimar KX 7000 (all-black body, updated styling, Minolta X-300s/X-370n clone)

Column 5:
Vivitar V50 (all-black body, Minolta X-300 clone, United States)
Phoenix P-3000 (all-black body, updated styling, Minolta X-300s/X-370n clone)

There is a note over each camera I've used so far showing a picture I took with that camera.

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 Blue rubber octopus
Blue rubber octopus club
A Warholian work.
3 years ago.
 HaarFager
HaarFager club has replied
That's also why I went with Sony. Because the Minolta autofocus A-Mount lenses will fit right on a Sony DSLR and with a Minolta adapter I have, all my manual-focus Minolta lenses, 50 years back, will fit, too.
3 years ago.
 HaarFager
HaarFager club has replied
Thank you, Esther!
3 years ago.
 HaarFager
HaarFager club has replied
It certainly took a long time to set them all up, remove the lenses and then climb up on a chair to get the shot.
3 years ago.
 Gudrun
Gudrun club
Wow, a brilliant idea and what a collection! You really went to great lengths to arrange the photo and add all the notes. I hope you didn't get too much dust in the sensors;-)
3 years ago.

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