Minolta Maxxum 300si Film Camera

The reason we purchased this particular camera was that I don't like to use a camera that I have to work to make it take a good pictures. This one you can set it on "all auto,' and it takes care of the rest. Well, the camera arrived and after we took about 5 pictures with it, and the auto wind on the camera quit working.

We contacted the seller, James Meek, and ask him what he wanted us to do about sending it back. He said that if we didn't care to just keep the camera and he would send us another body. We received the new body and shortly afterwards went on a vacation. Even I made took some really nice pictures.

Mr. Meek was very nice about the whole thing, and we would purchase from him again any time. Thank you for being so nice. You made a something that could have been bad experience go away.

Dorothy and Jeffrey Lowe

A very easy to use 35 mm camera with plenty of features. The camera has a built in flash and automatic focus. A great camera for anyone who still likes to use a film camera.

It was as advertised. I received what I bid for, and its condition was fine. The camera is out of date, but the lens was what I really wanted.

I had originaly bought this camera to get a part off of it to fix a 300si I had bought elsewhere. When it arrived I changed my mind. It's a nice camera for what is basically a P&S that you can change lenses on. I never really did much shooting with it, and I ended up giving it to my son. Not a bad camera, but a bit to basic.

Camera works great. I got what I saw, as was described. What was not described was that there was no battery in the camera. No big deal, but I expected it to be there so I could check out it's working condition as soon as I opened the package.

I've bought several of this model camera on ebay and have been very happy with the pictures the Maxxum 300i has produced. It is remarkably easy to use (you really can't take a bad picture with it. It is lightly built. That means it weighs very little but might imply that it could be broken easily if dropped. I haven't done that yet so I don't know and don't care to find out. The pictures that come from it are as good as those of cameras costing over $1000.

My only personal gripe is the autowinder is pretty slow - I'd bet it's less than 1.5 frames a second. The built in flash is a nice feature that is useful for taking pictures closer than 10 feet away. That's good enough for typical indoor flash pictures, but you can always get a full power flash for the hot shoe. The only reason I don't rate it excellent is there are so many great cameras out there, but if you can pick one up on ebay for less than $30 along with a minolta lens ( 35 to 70mm zoom) I think it is a great deal.

I have a great respect for Minolta: innovation, craftsmanship, leading technology.

It seems that after Minolta got burned some time back for producing some superior quality 35mm SLR's that ultimately proved to be too expensive to produce and to compete with in the mass market world, they changed gears in a bad direction.

Minolta continued innovation and advancements, trouble is they packaged them in some of the worst bodies ever produced, lenses and camera bodies. Cheap plastic, too much plastic, too much effort towards saving cost in cheaply conceived packages. After the metal bodies Minolta hyped the world and the world soon found out that Minolta was junk. Too bad versions like these ruin the great efforts in the past, while surely remarkable inventions resulted putting them in junkie cheap bodies severely effected this company. To think Leitz picked them as the best Japanese camera maker to share and have joint involvements with only to end up producing garbage like this model was. 3, 300, 0R 3000 7, 700, 7000 IF IT WAS PLASTIC IT WAS JUNK, Beware...

I have not only bought this camera for myself, but I have also bought 2 more as gifts. My mother has also bought 3 of this model camera for herself and friends. I you are looking for a simple to use and understand camera, I would highly recommend this one.