Originally posted by abruzzi Oddly, from what I can tell, it lacks shutter priority. (A strange omission because program mode requires the ability to automatically set both shutter and aperture, so why leave out shutter priority?).
Mainly to keep cost down but also Minolta's target market were photographers that preferred control of the aperture (aperture priority or Av in Pentax terms). Canon favored action/sports photographers as the AE-1 series were shutter priority (Tv). The Minolta XD-7/11 had both Av and Tv modes and I think the XK with AES viewfinder did as well. All the rest of Minolta's auto cameras were Av.
Minolta's program mode was biased towards aperture where as Canon's favored shutter speed.
The difference between the target markets can be seen in their lens line-ups. The Canon FD mount was known for the number of offerings in the long telephoto lenses where as Minolta (along with Olympus) had a wide range of macro bellows and macro bellows lenses.
Last edited by Not a Number; 01-28-2019 at 03:04 AM.