I cant stand that ho hum 1970's prism head on that camera.I like minolta equipment but I have always said that they should fire the entire design team.when you make a flag ship camera you at least have to make a camera that is apealing to people and which would evolve slowly from year to year.Minolta in the past has made some nice looking cameras but they have also made some strange dogs.nikon for the most part has their squarish head traced back to the f3 and canon space age like head from the eos1 to the current mark3 has remained basicaly the same. and here comes minolta, let us put a triangular head like an old olympus om1 and market that as our flagship.I know some people will say its not the design so much as the perfromance of the camera itself.That is a very good point..but let me ask Minsony fans like myself a question, If you were going to plunk down alot of cash for a ferrari, would'nt you have second thoughts if the car looked like a garbage can? Looks arent everything, but..the first thing that appeals to anyone are " looks"
The phone has 256MB of RAM and a 1GHz processor, which do the job reasonably well, though the Anna interface will likely leave something to be desired for many smartphone users.
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I cant stand that ho hum 1970's prism head on that camera.I like minolta equipment but I have always said that they should fire the entire design team.when you make a flag ship camera you at least have to make a camera that is apealing to people and which would evolve slowly from year to year.Minolta in the past has made some nice looking cameras but they have also made some strange dogs.nikon for the most part has their squarish head traced back to the f3 and canon space age like head from the eos1 to the current mark3 has remained basicaly the same. and here comes minolta, let us put a triangular head like an old olympus om1 and market that as our flagship.I know some people will say its not the design so much as the perfromance of the camera itself.That is a very good point..but let me ask Minsony fans like myself a question, If you were going to plunk down alot of cash for a ferrari, would'nt you have second thoughts if the car looked like a garbage can? Looks arent everything, but..the first thing that appeals to anyone are " looks"