I just picked up an XD5 at an estate sale for $32.50! It's in great shape and it's my first foray into proper film photography. I love your videos, and frankly I'm shocked at your low subscriber number for how high quality your videos are. Keep up the great work!
It looks like the XD-7/XD-11 models did have aperture setting displayed in the viewfinder (Actual setting, not recommended). I owned an XD-5 way back in 1981, took it to the beach to photograph my cousin surfing, unfortunately 5 drops of salt water on the camera destroyed it. I still have MD Rokkor 50mm f/1.4 lens from this camera, but on an XG2. The XD models are much better than XG.
Why compare one Minolta camera that came out in the 1980s that not fully metal housing like the XD 5 ...1975 .. when you can compare the all metal body of a XD that came out in 1977 ?
@@TheGizmoGarage Vastly better shutter, better build, more creative control than the X570. The XD11/XD7 are significantly better cameras than the X570. The only real benefit of the X700 is the OTF metering for flash photography.
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I just picked up an XD5 at an estate sale for $32.50! It's in great shape and it's my first foray into proper film photography. I love your videos, and frankly I'm shocked at your low subscriber number for how high quality your videos are. Keep up the great work!
That’s a fantastic value! Thank you, I’m just trying to spread the joy of film photography through RUclips.
It looks like the XD-7/XD-11 models did have aperture setting displayed in the viewfinder (Actual setting, not recommended). I owned an XD-5 way back in 1981, took it to the beach to photograph my cousin surfing, unfortunately 5 drops of salt water on the camera destroyed it. I still have MD Rokkor 50mm f/1.4 lens from this camera, but on an XG2. The XD models are much better than XG.
I have an xd7 and an x570 (and some Nikon FEs) and I dont know why plastic is seen as less durable.
With a little practice XD5's exposure compensation can substitute AE-lock.
Why compare one Minolta camera that came out in the 1980s that not fully metal housing like the XD 5 ...1975 .. when you can compare the all metal body of a XD that came out in 1977 ?
Because people now have choices in 2024! Back before plastic housing came out, they do not!
Hi, where can I get the XD5??
Try eBay ebay.us/d6KlGv
XD11/XD7 is definitely better than both of them.
Slightly better :) As the internals are pretty much identical with a few added features.
@@TheGizmoGarage Vastly better shutter, better build, more creative control than the X570. The XD11/XD7 are significantly better cameras than the X570. The only real benefit of the X700 is the OTF metering for flash photography.