![]() When two consecutive lights glow, the shutter speed is somewhere between the two values. When you touch the shutter button, red LEDs light next to the shutter speed the camera chooses. A shutter-speed scale appears inside the viewfinder. ![]() In aperture-priority mode, the cloth shutter is stepless from 1/1000 to 1 sec. Just set the shutter speed dial to A, choose an aperture, and let the XG 1 do the rest. The XG 1 is meant to be used in aperture-priority mode. In 1982, the camera’s name gained a hyphen (XG-1) and the new “rising sun” Minolta logo. Or at least that’s what it became upon its 1979 introduction. The 1 in the name doesn’t mean it was the first of the series - that was the XG 7 - but rather that it is the entry level model. When Minolta introduced its XG series of SLRs in 1977, it slotted between the near-pro XD series and all-mechanical SR-T series. ![]() I bought one because I had two Minolta X-700s in a row that failed, but I wanted a body lighter than my SR-T 101 to shoot my MD Rokkor lenses. Minolta’s XG series was their way of competing against Olympus’s OM series and Pentax’s M cameras. Competition among SLR manufacturers heated up during the 1970s as use of electronics increased and body size decreased.
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