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Where is the Minolta X-700 serial number? By mark_stephan2 August 19, 2012 in Sony/Minolta Posted August 19, 2012

I'm sending my X-700 off for repair tomorrow and I'm trying to locate the serial number, I've spent the last 5 minutes looking and still can't find it. Minolta X-700 Serial Number A ArtO Jun 13, 2014 Latest Gallery A Close Daniela 0 0 42 A A hand awty 2 2 125 A cliveh 4 1 124 A Afselius 1 0 132 A artonpaper 0 ArtO Member Joined Sep 29, 2008

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The Minolta X-700 is a 35 mm single-lens reflex film camera introduced by Minolta in 1981. It was the top model of their final manual-focus SLR series before the introduction of the auto-focus Minolta Maxxum 7000. [citation needed] Features Unlike amateur cameras like the $1,000 Nikon F100, the Minolta X-700 has a stainless steel lens mount. "MPS" on the front stands for "Minolta Program System," which was hot stuff when Program automation cameras were novel in 1985. Today it just means it has program mode, like every other camera. It has a cloth horizontal focal plane shutter. 4 Reaction score 0 Apr 19, 2016 #1 hi! I'm new here! And had my x-700 giving to me about 6months ago and it's working great, such a fun camera to use. I would like to know how old it is though (would be my soul mate if we were the same age) Minolta X-700 serial number Jul 12, 2016 Any resources that you know of where I could find out when my camera was manufactured? The serial number is 2240376. -- hide signature -- Todd The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. -Dorothea Lange Todd G.'s gear list:

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First manufactured in 1981, the Minolta X-700 is a single lens reflex camera. It has manual, aperture priority and programmed automatic exposure modes when used with MD lenses. MC lens can be used in aperture priority and manual modes. An immediate commercial success for Minolta, it was awarded the EISA "Camera of the Year" award in 1981 and was continually produced until 1999, well into the. Page 1 INSTRUCTION MANUAL X-700 MINOLTA. Page 2 X-700 right from start. To obtain many years of service f r o m your X-700, be sure to read and follow the precautions given on page 8 elsewhere.. Number agreement can, Basic setting Taking a picture in M mode course, be disregarded and To use the X-700 in metered- or full-manual mode, first. Minolta X-700 (1981) June 21, 2023 Photography / Reviews. This is a Minolta X-700, a 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera made by Minolta of Japan between the years 1981 and 1999. It was the last advanced manual focus Minolta SLR before the auto focus area and had a large number of features including both Aperture Priority and Programmed Auto Exposure. Digital Camera MINOLTA X-700 Instruction Manual. (64 pages) Digital Camera Minolta X-700 Instruction Manual. (63 pages) Film Camera MINOLTA X-700 - PART 1 Manual. (32 pages) Film Camera MINOLTA X-700 - PART 2 Manual. From page 31 (32 pages) Digital Camera Minolta X-700 Instruction Manual.

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Quote Reply Topic: Minolta date of manufacture from Serial No. Posted: 22 April 2022 at 16:19. There's a youtube video from 'Mr Baz' that states that the third digit of a Minolta serial number indicates the year of manufacture. So a 4 would be 1994 or 2004, a 7 would be 1987 or 1997, etc. Has anyone come across a source for this theory? Where is the Minolta X-700 serial number? By mark_stephan2 August 19, 2012 in DSLR & Film Cameras mark_stephan2 Members 1.6k Posted August 19, 2012

I'm sending my X-700 off for repair tomorrow and I'm trying to locate the serial number, I've spent the last 5 minutes looking and still can't find it. The Minolta X-700 was the last high specification manual focus body manufactured by the company before the introduction of its revolutionary autofocus body the 7000. Beginning in 1981, the X-700 was launched as a state of the art SLR camera, boasting an enormous array of accessories which together comprised the "Minolta Program System".. Minolta X-700 serial number Jul 12, 2016 Any resources that you know of where I could find out when my camera was manufactured? The serial number is 2240376. -- hide signature -- Todd The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. -Dorothea Lange Todd G.'s gear list:

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Minolta serial numbers are completely meaningless. They were handed out willy nilly without any association to production dates, countries of origin, and so on. The X-700 was produced for some years after the Minolta auto focus system was introduced, and no more new cameras and accessories developed for the manual focus system. The X- series was Minolta 's last manual-focus line. After this everything went to Maxxum. The X-700 was heavy on computing power at the time: it offered program (full-auto), aperture-priority, full manual and TTL flash, including off-the-film metering. This was a system camera, so you got interchangable focusing screens, a choice between a.