Are they still made?

I was looking over the cameras at Cambridge Camera or Photo, anyway, they
had VHS video cameras made by Panasonic and for 35mm film cameras they had
the Minolta X-700. I have the Minolta X-700 and I thought they went out of
production about 5 years ago. Also, I thought nobody has been making VHS
video cameras for at least that long. Do they have a warehouse the size of
a football field with this stuff or are these cameras being made by someone
yet. These were not the only ones I should add, just ones I know are out of
production, or so I thought. Ric in Wisconsin.

 

The X-700 was discontinued in 1999, according to Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minolta_X-700

This was one of Minolta's best selling cameras ever, and no doubt some "new
old stock" can still be found in a few camera stores.

Doug

 

Minolta sold the design and production rights to the X-series and the
MC/MD lens mount to Seagull in China who had been producing the camera
for a decade or more under contract to Seagull. You can still get new
Seagull models through importers, gray market or other sources. The
Seagull model shares a lot the parts from the original Minolta designed
models. You can find occasional new old stock bodies and lenses around
in smaller camera shops or on Ebay.

 

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Okay, thanks for the info on the Minolta X-700, now what about the VHS
cameras? Are these just old cameras that didn't sale? If so I wonder how
the caps would be sitting there that long. Also, you would be buying a
camera which would have no parts made for it for several years. So if the
on and off switch would break on your VHS camera, you might have a camera
that you can't use after only one week. Unless someone like Seagull is
making those too. Anybody know? Ric.