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Anonymous
Hmm. It should be able to autofocus. According to a quick google search, that's actually the first commercially successful autofocus SLR. A lot of Minolta manuals are available online, so try searching.
As for whether or not you should just hund down a Nikon f80... meh. A film camera is basically just a light-tight box with a hole in it. When I'm shooting film, it's with a Minolta SR-T-SC II manual-focus, almost-completely-mechanical SLR from the late 70s. It's The Photographer Not The Camera.
(Also, given that the Maxxum mount isn't nearly so widespread as the F-mount, my gut instinct is that there would be less demand for Maxxum lenses so used ones will be cheaper. Although that also means less supply of Maxxum lenses, so I could be wrong. And they *are* still usable on the Sony Alpha)
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