I bought a X-700 around 1988 new at the PX and used it until early 2000s. I used it with two Minolta zooms, a power winder and the 360-PX flash unit. I still have everything but the camera body and I still use the flash unit in my strobist kit. The X-700 eventually//typically succumbs to a capacitor failure, mine did, at the time I researched it. It is a fairly common way for them to die and when they do they become non-op. The repair was around $120 in 2007 and quite involved and I never had it done. The battery for those also became a problem as the light meter was designed based on the mercury type of battery voltage curve and the replacements available now have a different curve and so there is need for compensation or allowance, (old Pentax may have a similar issue but maybe not if meter didn't rely on the voltage curve as reference). Now that is not a slam on the X-700, as the camera lasted almost twenty years which is about how long capacitors often last, and who knew they would ban the designed for battery. Are you buying one or do you already have one? If buying just be aware the electronics will be the long pole weakness on that camera. Also there is a mod that can be done to convert to new battery use. If paying very much, ask if the mod is done and if the cap that fail were ever replaced. If cheap well figure they probably weren't and you may have to deal with it. Now ask me about the Minolta SRT202 as I can talk about those too, my first SLR from 1977 with the 50/1.4 which was an expensive upgrade for a 15 year old kid, lets just say it cost me my life's saving at the time. Oh one more thing, I don't know if it was the camera or the two zooms, but I never really made a connection with that camera and lens, I actually liked the photos from the Canon Sure Shot I used for awhile between the SRT202 and the X-700 more to be honest. I don't know why but I just couldn't find the magic with that camera. Technically I suppose it did what it was supposed to though just fine, I mean it literally went to war with me.
