A few months ago my Uncle Barney sent me a box of cameras from his antique shop crawls. If you’ve been following me a while, you will remember that he always finds the long rejected cameras and rescues them for me. I get so excited when he sends me a box. This time there was a few different cameras and lenses inside, and one was the Minolta Maxxum 300si.
Upon my first google search, I found that this model had a few alias’s. The Dynax 300si, and it was also sold in American Ritz Camera stores as the Maxxum RZ300si.
This isn’t going to be a full review just yet. That will come later after I’ve spent more time with it. This is just a quick peak that it’s been my tradition to share with you all when I get a new camera. Let me know if it’s something you want me to fully review.
The camera came with a dead battery pack installed, and it wasn’t hard to replace from Amazon, but also not very cheap. It also came with an autofocus zoom 35-70mm lens. It is the typical plastic type camera from the 90’s that we all recognize with the built in flash on top.
I own a Canon EOS Rebel G, which was my very first 35mm camera when I was 13, and it’s similar. It comes with the usual automatic modes of the day, portrait, landscape, close focus, motion, and nighttime. There is no manual exposure mode, but you can switch to manual focus.
Can you tell Lainey is over mama taking her photo all the time? LOL
I am not usually a fan of these types of flash photos, but I actually really liked these snapshots of Alaina. It may be nostalgia of when I was a kid that is influencing me. The autofocus was surprisingly good, and I want to take more of this style photo.
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Final Thoughts
Let me know if you would like me to do more articles on this camera. Sometimes it is nice to just use a camera that does it all for you. I want to make it a point to do this more often, if only to feel like old times once in a while.
Until next time, stay motivated and keep shooting.
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Of course I would love to see another post (or two or three or…) about this camera, especially if it features more beautiful photos of your daughter! You take child pictures exactly the same way I like to, getting down to their level and photographing them just doing their thing. And I just love her facial expressions. Just wait, soon enough she will learn the Eye Roll! (Just ask me how I know… nah, I think you already know how I know.)
lol yes we are rapidly approaching that already.