Inheriting a Minolta SRT 101 - first impressions
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- This was my grandfather's Minolta SRT 101. In this video, I take a first look at it and some of the lenses it came with.
Here's a really handy video guide for this camera:
• How to Use Minolta SRT...
I also picked up a101 not long ago. I like manual cameras. You'll have fun learning how to do photography with film cameras.
These old Japanese cameras are gorgeous. Minolta is a great brand. Enjoy.
OK. I own two of those, 1966 was the first model roll out in Japan. That's an early one with no hot shoe for flash and has the film speed reminder dial on the film door at the back. Later models in the 1970's had a hot shoe and a square receptacle on the film door to take the box-end of your cardboard film box. This tells you whether your film is colour, B & W, negative, slide film, and of course the ISO of the film. Originally took a 1.35 volt mercury battery (no longer available). You can use a current 1.5 volt battery which has a 1/3 of a f/stop discrepancy. The camera works fine with no battery except for the light meter. You can use a hand-held light meter or use the "Sunny 16" method. How that works; set the shutter speed to that of the film ISO or close as, and use the rule, F/16 for sunny condition, F/11 for part cloud and F/8 for full cloud and F/5.6 for dark, thick cloud. It's a great camera, I got my first one in 1977 when I was 13 years old.
You may be able to get voltage-adjusting battery inserts to allow use of modern equivalent silver-oxide batteries. I ran into the light meter discrepancy issue with my Nikon Ftn camera had to 'fudge' the ASA/ISO setting to allow for that but that was not linear across all lighting conditions. I found voltage-adjusting batter inserts (The Nikon required two of them) and they work fine.
Back when I was getting into photography, the top dogs were Nikon and Leica. If you had the bread, you got a Nikon F or Leica M4. Right below that were the Pentax Spotmatic and the Nikkormat. Then you had Canon FTb and your grandpa's Minolta. All of them classic film cameras; any of them would do the job. Being a broke high school kid, I had to settle for the Canon TL (the FTb's cheaper sibling). But it, too, was a fine camera-did the job until I got my Leica.
Just got an SRT 303. Mint w lens for under $100
Sony Alpha is the Result of Sony electronics and Minolta Optics, because Sony Purchased Minolta to improve its own Cameras to lead them to Profesional cameras, taking advantage of Sony's expertise in Electronics and Film Recording. Sony is the Best in Recording Videos, Nikkon is the Best in Photography and Canon is an intermediate of Both Good Video and goos photography but not the best in any.
cool!