The Minolta XD7 (XD II)

I first bought this body back in February 1996 from the now defunct Techno Camera store group in Stoke on Trent.
This body was first introduced in 1977 and phased out in 1983.
It was the worlds first camera with more than two exposure modes, metered manual, Aperture Priority and Shutter Priority autoexposure coupled with a system that overrode any suggestions if they fell outside of the exposure values possible.
The chassis formed the basis of the Leica R4 models.
It is a exceptionally well conceived camera body that has a clear easy to use top plate.
The shutter is a metal vertical design.
The flash is NOT metered by the camera and the sync speed is 1/100.
In 1979 a cut down version, the XD5 was introduced, removing the exposure compensation safe load  and aperture viewfinder display indications.

The lens you got  varied from dealer to dealer, so at launch you could have the 45mm F2 'pancake' with a 49mm filter thread and a choice of three 50mm lenses of F2, F1.7 and 1.4 apertures in 55mm filter threads which were adapted from the last MC (Mid 1970's) series just adding the extra lug for the minimum aperture for the XD7/5's shutter priority mode.
The above is the Mark II 50mm F1.7 from around 1979 though 1981 that saw it made smaller, lighter, taking the more in vogue 49mm filter thread and it was that which came mounted to my used XD7 but keeping the minimum aperture at F16 and the focus scale in green.