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The Toronto International Auto Show 2005

I made a special visit to Toronto to visit the International Auto Show so I could practice taking photos with my Minolta Maxxum 7D. There was a lot more to the Auto Show than what I captured in these photos, since it was a lot of walking and my feet ended up quitting before I could visit all the booths. The order of photos on this page is the order in which I walked around the show floor. All photos are exactly as the camera captured them, except for being scaled down and sharpened for the Web.

The Maxxum 7D perfomed well, though it could really use a balanced fill-flash feature like the Nikon D70 to make shooting in low-light conditions easier. I either had to work in Shutter Priority mode and suffer limited depth of field from a wide-open aperture, or I had to work in Aperture Priority mode and use spot metering which didn’t always expose the background properly. I think Minolta could easily add a balanced fill-flash feature if they just removed the arbitrary 1/60s lower limit on shutter speeds when working with a flash in Aperture Priority mode. That’s what the D70 does and I’ll be disappointed if Minolta neglects to add the feature in a future firmware update.