Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/13

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Subject: Re: Tell me about the R3?
From: Joe Berenbaum <joe-b@dircon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 01:09:29 GMT

At 16:55 13/11/97 -0500, you wrote:

>XD-7 in Europe, XD-11 in US
>
>>XD-11 - the first camera with Shutter Priority and Aperture Priority.
>
>Or maybe the CANON A1?
>
>Lucien
>BELGIUM

It was quite widely touted at the time it came out that the Minolta XD-7
(XD-11) was the world's first multi-mode SLR- ie the first to have both
aperture priority and shutter priority.