Years ago, I saved up enough money to buy a new
"do everything" 35mm SRL called a Minolta XD-11.
It was awesome, the quality of it's pictures and the
accuracy of the thing (exposure, etc) was superb.
At the time, the complexity of SLR was just starting to
take off, and unlike the incomprehensible Canon A-1,
the Minolta seemed to have been given lots of thought.
Unfortunately, I broke the lens of a telescope I had
and had to replace it at pretty high cost so I ended
up selling the camera.  Later, because I wanted to do
astrophotography, I bought the mainstay camera for that,
the Olympus OM-1 and stuck with it.
But Minolta genuinely seems to be interested in the consumer
if you look at the way they designed their current digital
SLR.  Rather than cheap out on it, they chose a medium between
quality, functionality and price that at least put them at the
upper end of the basic DSLR market.  Now they have the D5
out which is catering more to the novice crowd and yet it has
kept the main attributes of the D7.  Good luck to them.