Minolta Dynax 5000i

Dynax 5000i (Europe)/Maxxum 5000i (US)/Alpha 5700i (Japan) image by Uwe Kulick (Image rights)

The 5000i belonged to the second camera body generation of Minolta's autofocus SLR system. The "i" stood for "intelligence" of automatic exposure control and autofocus, etc. . It is quite compact and has a fast shutter (4 sec. to 1/2000 sec., but only upto 1/90 sec. flash sync. speed). It has a big LCD display for better control of functions. Its built-in zoom-flash is not collapsible. It has a big CCD inside for two-zone TTL-metering (EV 0 to 18 at film speed ISO 100). The camera can be used in programmed modes or with manual settings. The multi-programme mode choses automatically the appropriate programme. The camera has the same chip card slot as the Minolta Dynax 7000i but can only use the portrait card, the sports card, the DOF card, the close-up card and the A/S (aperture-/shutter-priority) card. Thus most of those programmes which were common built-in standard modes of many later autofocus SLR models had to be bought as extra program chip card for the Minolta 5000i of 1989.

• Dimensions: 148×97×65 mm
• Weight: 500g

Links

• Minolta Dynax 5000i on www.collection-appareils.fr by Sylvain Halgand