mikes550

14-42 wow talk about wide angle that's gotta fishey looking from stop to stop

I mean playing with it I've been able to find all my settings I'd need for manual shooting so they didn't remove them but it isn't very intuitive to shoot manual on it, definitely gear towards auto use

Ya I can agree with that I have 3 pentax slrs a spotmatic sp 2, a k1000, and a super program, they all predate the 80s and certainly feel like bricks of steel compared to this minolta. However looking inside the chambers comparatively. it's built with just as much quality and much more electronic of course then my other 3

I did read that the 5000 was a lower end consumer level slr the 7000 and 9000 were more for professionals, it seems pretty solid though even for a lower end model

So it's really just a saying slapped onto anything that someone has a good preference on which happens to be cheaper plastic construction