| Camera Type: |
35mm SLR with built-in flash, auto focus (AF), and autoexposure (AE) |
| Film Type: |
35mm film |
| Lens Mount: |
Minolta A mount (metal mount) |
| Eye-start Automation: |
AF and AE automatically activated/deactivated by combination of eyepiece and grip sensors.
Eye-start Automation can be disabled. |
| Focus system: |
| AF sensor system: |
Minolta's TTL phase-detection system with CCD line sensors (7-point AF system with a center cross-hair sensor) |
| Sensitivity range: |
Ev -1 - 18 (at ISO 100) |
| AF illuminator: |
Built-in flash automatically activated to aid focusing in low light and low-contrast situation.
Range: approx. 1 - 5m (with 50mm lens) |
| Autofocus areas: |
Wide focus area
Any local focus area can be selected from the 7-point sensors. |
| Predictive Focus Control: |
Multi-dimensional Predictive Focus Control for moving subjects |
| Focus modes: |
Autofocus, Manual focus |
| Manual focus: |
Visually monitoring the viewfinder focusing screen or the focus signals on the viewfinder data panel |
| Exposure system: |
| Metering: |
Ambient: 14-segment Honeycomb-Pattern, Spot
Flash metering: Direct TTL OTF (ADI or TTL multi-segment can be selected with a custom function.) |
| Metering cell: |
14-segment Honeycomb-Pattern SPC (silicone photocell), 4-segment flash-metering SPC |
| Metering range: |
14-segment Honeycomb-Pattern: Ev 1-20
Spot: Ev 4-20
(ISO 100, f/1.4 lens) |
| Exposure modes: |
Programmed AE (with PA/PS Creative Program Control), Aperture priority, Shutter priority, Manual |
| Subject program selection: |
5 user-selectable programs tailored to specific subject or scene characteristics - Portrait, Landscape, Close-up, Sports action, Night portrait |
| Shutter and aperture control: |
In 0.5 Ev increments
Exposure compensation: ±3 Ev in 0.5 Ev increments
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| Exposure bracketing: |
3 exposures in 0.3, 0.5, 0.7 or 1 Ev increments |
| ISO setting: |
Automatic setting for DX-coded film
Manual setting
Non DX coded film is set to the previous ISO setting.
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| ISO range: |
Automatic setting: ISO 25 - 5000 in 1/3 Ev increments
Manual setting: ISO 6 - 6400 in 1/3 Ev increments
With flash: ISO 25 - 1000
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| AE lock: |
Exposure is automatically locked when focus is locked.
Exposure within the spot metering area is locked with the spot AE-lock button.
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| Shutter: |
| Type: |
Electronically-controlled, vertical-traverse, focal-plane type |
| Speed: |
1/4000 - 30 s, Bulb (up to approx. 7 h with fresh batteries) |
| Flash-sync speed: |
1/125 s or slower
With shutter speeds faster than 1/125s, camera automatically switches to high-speed sync (HSS)*.
* available with Program Flash 5400HS, 5600HS(D), and 3600HS(D) |
| Flash: |
| Type: |
Built-in |
| Guide number: |
12 (in meters at ISO 100) |
| Coverage: |
28mm |
| Flash modes: |
- In programmed AE and subject program selection modes: autoflash. Fill flash and flash cancel can be selected.
- In aperture priority, shutter priority, and manual modes: fill flash is manually selected.
- Red-eye reduction (using pre-flash)
- Wireless/remote off-camera flash (including ratio flash function) |
| Viewfinder: |
| Type: |
Eye-level fixed pentaprism |
| Focusing screen: |
Spherical acute matte |
| Field of view: |
90 x 90% of film frame (with 50mm lens focused at infinity) |
| Magnification: |
0.75X (with 50mm lens focused at infinity) |
| Eye-relief: |
16mm from the eyepiece, 13mm from the eyepiece frame |
| Diopter: |
-1 diopter |
| Eyepiece cup: |
Removable |
| Depth-of-field preview: |
Control placed on the front of the camera |
| Film transport: |
| Type: |
Automatic with built-in motor drive
Auto threading, Auto advance to first frame, Auto rewind, Manual start of rewind
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| Film advance: |
Single frame advance, Continuous advance |
| Continuous advance speed: |
3 fps (max.) |
| Rewind time: |
Approx. 8 s (with 24-exposure film) |
| Film Chamber Lock: |
Automatically locks the back cover when the film is loaded |
| Self-timer: |
Electronic with 10-second delay
Self-timer can be canceled. |
