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The '''[[Minolta]] X-1''' ('''XK''' in North America, '''XM''' in Europe and elsewhere) was the professional model in the Minolta line-up. It took about ten years to develop and started a new era in the Minolta SR system. It was the first Minolta SLR with interchangeable lenses to have an electronically controlled shutter, a horizontically traveling shutter with titanium foil curtains and capable of a shortest speed of 1/2000s (longest selectable was 16 s). It had interchangeable finders:  
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The '''[[Minolta]] X-1''' ('''XK''' in North America, '''XM''' in Europe and elsewhere) was the professional model in the Minolta line-up. It took about ten years to develop and started a new era in the Minolta SR system. It was the first Minolta [[SLR]] with interchangeable lenses to have an electronically controlled shutter, a [[focal plane shutter|horizontically traveling shutter]] with titanium foil curtains and capable of a shortest speed of 1/2000s (longest selectable was 16 s). It had interchangeable finders:  
  
* AE-Finder: The standard finder with a refined CLC metering system (introduced by the [[Minolta SR-T 101|SR-T 101]]) and aperture priority auto exposure mode.
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* AE-Finder: The standard finder with a refined CLC metering system (introduced by the [[Minolta SR-T 101|SR-T 101]]) and [[aperture priority]] auto exposure mode.
* M-Finder: A simpler and cheaper version of the AE-finder, the match-needle finder. It did not show metered shutter times but had only a needle to align. And it lacked the automatic mode.
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* M-Finder: A simpler and cheaper version of the AE-finder, the match-needle finder. It did not show metered shutter times but had only a needle to align. It lacked the automatic mode.
* P-finder: The plain finder, an unmetered pentaprism finder, which gave the X-1 a much more compact silhouette than the bulky finders above.  
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* P-finder: The plain finder, an unmetered [[pentaprism]] finder, which gave the X-1 a much more compact silhouette than the bulky finders above.  
 
* High-Magnification-Finder: Unmetered finder with 6.2 magnification ratio and diopter adjustment.
 
* High-Magnification-Finder: Unmetered finder with 6.2 magnification ratio and diopter adjustment.
 
* Waist-Level-Finder: Unmetered with magnifier.
 
* Waist-Level-Finder: Unmetered with magnifier.
* AE-S-Finder: Introduced with the [[Minolta X-1 Motor|X-1 Motor]] and equipped with a silicon cell instead of the slower CdS-cell of the AE-Finder. This was necessary for the auto exposure mode with motorized action.
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* AE-S-Finder: Introduced with the [[Minolta X-1 Motor|X-1 Motor]] and equipped with a silicon cell instead of the slower [[CdS|CdS-cell]] of the AE-Finder. This was necessary for the auto exposure mode with motorized action.
 
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Revision as of 16:38, 20 March 2008

The Minolta X-1 (XK in North America, XM in Europe and elsewhere) was the professional model in the Minolta line-up. It took about ten years to develop and started a new era in the Minolta SR system. It was the first Minolta SLR with interchangeable lenses to have an electronically controlled shutter, a horizontically traveling shutter with titanium foil curtains and capable of a shortest speed of 1/2000s (longest selectable was 16 s). It had interchangeable finders:

  • AE-Finder: The standard finder with a refined CLC metering system (introduced by the SR-T 101) and aperture priority auto exposure mode.
  • M-Finder: A simpler and cheaper version of the AE-finder, the match-needle finder. It did not show metered shutter times but had only a needle to align. It lacked the automatic mode.
  • P-finder: The plain finder, an unmetered pentaprism finder, which gave the X-1 a much more compact silhouette than the bulky finders above.
  • High-Magnification-Finder: Unmetered finder with 6.2 magnification ratio and diopter adjustment.
  • Waist-Level-Finder: Unmetered with magnifier.
  • AE-S-Finder: Introduced with the X-1 Motor and equipped with a silicon cell instead of the slower CdS-cell of the AE-Finder. This was necessary for the auto exposure mode with motorized action.

And the photographer had the choice among nine (later eleven) interchangeable focussing screens. It further had a socket for a synchronized flash shoe, mirror lock up feature, stop down lever, multi exposure capabillity.

The X-1 was the first of the X-series and so a completely new designed lens line was introduced and labelled with 'MC Rokkor-X' in the north American market (the rest of the world kept the plain 'MC Rokkor' designation). The most striking attribute was the new waffled rubber coating of the focus grip. The X-1 and its export descendents were available in black finish only.

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