I bought the Contax G1 recently. The Minolty X700 too but as I wrote in the first challenge blog article: The X700 was the first (serious) camera I used and the one I used longer than any other camera (may be except for the Hasselblad 500CM). The challenge between the two cameras is also a challenge between the two systems: SLR vs Rangefinder and that is something I am curious about too: Can one see a quality diffenence between Point and Shoot, Rangefinder, SLR and Medium For

My first camera was a Minolta X700 and I bought new from my saved money when I was 15 years young. It is probably the camera I used much longer then any other camera I owe or owed. What´s more – for more than 15 years it was also the only camera I used. This has changed a bit during the past years. I shoot film and have more than 30 different models of cameras. I must say though that I don´t buy cameras for the shelf. I buy them to shoot with them. But my wife made a good po