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From: barbaral@tekid.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Re: Manual SLRs - (nf)
Message-ID: <1266@tekid.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Jun-83 11:47:46 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  7 11:47:46 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 9-Jun-83 19:33:52 EDT
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I used to have an old Olympus manual camera.  Then my parents gave
me a Minolta AUTOFOCUS camera for Xmas, with a built in flash.
You cannot set the settings manually on the Minolta.  The one thing
I don't like is it doesn't like to focus closer than about 3 feet.
It makes a beeping noise which means the camera is too close to the
subject.  I like having the built in flash a lot.  I don't like
having to remember that the batteries might go dead.  
Overall, I like the autofocus Minolta.  I am not a serious photographer.
I like to take pictures of my friends and of places I visit, so the
simpler the camera is to use, the better for me.