Minolta XD-11 vs Canon A-1 May the best camera lose

Back in the day these were the two most advanced 35mm cameras ever seen. They formed the basis for all the modern day digital cameras in current use. Two of the great film cameras.
#minolta XD-11# #Canon A-1#

[@418Stranger]

This man has full of pasion & love for camera. I just plan to get minolta xd and find this video. Thank you for your comprehensive information👍👏

[@jambambadamba]

this great man i love the slick back wrap on that canon to pull out all of the hydro fusion in the splitter

[@JoeLopez]

Nice history lesson. My XD is one of my favorite shooters.

[@jonglass]

The irony is that in the early 80s, Minolta sort of capitulated to the Canon way by producing the X700. WRT the off-the-film-plane metering for flash, I don't think that the light meters available in the early 70s were capable of the speed necessary for reading off the film during exposure, so I can see why Minolta let that go. I think the XD11 was their first camera capable of metering in real time. Great video!

[@henrysiegertsz8204]

There were PIN diode light detectors in the late '60's. PIN diodes of the '70's era could discriminate sub microsecond pulses, 1/1000 sec shutter speed is 1 millisecond timing. Thus the technology was easily fast enough to detect light levels a flash sync speeds of 1/100 second 10 milliseconds. Exposure computation was done with analog summing amplifiers, much much faster than the fastest digital conversion and computing of even todays digital camera systems.

[@michaelwhiles5282]

Sold many of both, for me the Canon always felt the more advanced with many features in plain sight, however the Minolta always felt better quality. Of course the Canon went on to over shadow the Minolta and may have been one of the reasons why Minolta went on to AF well ahead of the competition 😎👍

[@drsmith1958]

Bought the xd11 new in 78 still have used it alot love it.

[@walterarroyo5220]

I have both and I like the canon more because I tend to find more Canon A series cameras that work compared to XD, XE & XG series combined.

[@alanwells3734]

8.27 , the Canon AE-1 came out in April 1976 , 5 years before the AE-1 program in 1981 , sorry to be pedantic

[@andrewcomerford9411]

The Konica Autoreflex T introduced Shutter Priority before the Canon AE-1. There have been a number of battery-dependent manual SLRs, the Praktica BMS springs to mind, but nobody takes them seriously. The AL-1 was aperture priority only, and a bit of a dog. Minolta's XD-7 (XD-11 in North America) wasn't a bad piece of kit, but Minolta didn't produce another multimode until the autofocus 7000. The Mamiya ZE-X was another early contender, but too unreliable to matter, and I prefer my Fujica AX-5 in any case (although finding lenses for it is a sod.

[@MrGibsonguy335]

When I replaced my original XG-7 with the then brand new X-700, I thought it was the greatest camera ever made. Until I bought an old F2 Photomic. As soon as I got my first roll of prints back from the drug store, I packed up my entire minolta system and shipped it off to KEH! Never shot with a minolta again until very recently with this old XD-11 I rescued.

[@John-uc6gb]

-good video. I have both. thank you

[@aarontown]

xd wins. A1 loses.