![]() It’s also the camera which got me into photography in the first place. It’s the camera which brought me back to film photography. Nevertheless, the Minolta X-370s has a special place in my heart. It was Minolta’s low-end SLR, manufactured with liberal use of plastic parts, and not in Japan but – gasp! – in China. On the contrary – and notwithstanding my ‘glamour photo’ attempts above – the X-370s is a thoroughly un-glamorous, fully-electronic camera. You won’t catch reviewers describing the X-370s as exuding “class and sophistication” (as did Jeb in his review of the Minolta XD) or as a “technological marvel of its day” ( James on the X-700). However, even a die-hard Minolta fan is unlikely to get excited about the humble X-370s. Minolta never had quite the same cachet as Canon or Nikon, but they do have a cult following, and of course they get plenty of love here on Casual Photophile. The camera I used to take these photographs was a Minolta X-370s – a manual-focus SLR from the early nineties. 37 color prints with gorgeous saturation and a three-dimensional look which far exceeded the capabilities of the digital bridge camera I was using at the time. Is this what I was missing? It was summer 2011, and at a small photo-lab in downtown Tokyo I was holding 6×4″ colour prints from the first roll of film I’d shot in over six years.
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