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Minolta XG-M 35mm Analog Film SLR. From rant to LOVE.
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Minolta XG-M 35mm Analog Film SLR.
I love this camera SO much!
I took most all my sons baby/toddler photos with it. I didn’t even really know what I was doing and they are fantastic photos. Black and white and color.
It stopped working when he was 3-4. I was devastated.
I kept the whole lot. Lenses, flash etc. tucked in a box in a closet.
We moved recently and I found it.
I look at it daily and finally googled….found you.
DAMMIT!!! I think it’s just the battery 🤦♀️ I had no idea there was a battery!!
(It was a hand me down camera from my dad)
I’m 59, and my son is almost 19..
I’m getting this shit fixed, learning about lenses and film, and starting up again!!❤
Thank you!!
Bless you man 😂 I couldn’t figure out how to turn the dial and you’re the only person who explained to lift and twist the dial ❤️
😄 sometimes it takes me a while to figure these things out too 🙌🏾
Minolta were top of their game in the late 70s and early 80s and produced some superb slr's. I've got the X-500 and X-700 along with various rokkor lenses. They always impress me when I put film through them. The 50/1.7 is also an excellent lens and is regarded as one of Minlolta gems. I've never used a XGM but its very similar to the X700 and X500 :) Nice video.
Howie Mudge Photography thank you for watching 🙏🏿 Yes indeed this lens is very nice.
Enjoyed your review. My Minolta is the XG-7 and a 7000. My one complaint about these is, as you stated, cannot fall back to manual. This XG-7 has been on the shelf for many years as replacement batteries would not work the shutter and I could not part with it. I was informed if the batteries are fresh and the film advance lever does not operate then a capacitor was needing to be replaced; nobody does that. Today, with nothing else to do I put in two fresh 357/303 batteries. BAM, the camera came alive, I almost vapor-locked! Years ago I did the same yet the advance lever would not move. Although I am excited, there is trepidation putting in a film then having the camera return to its coma.
My three lens are the MD Rokkor-X 28mm f/2.8, MD Rokkor-X 50 mm f/1.7, and MD Telle Rokkor 135 mm 3.5. Years ago these lens were all I needed and they produced marvelous images on proper film.
Edit: Sadly, after a few hours getting used to this camera, it again went into a coma. Reset those new batteries, but the camera will not come out of its coma, it is now a play-pretty. Very disappointing.
Edit 2: Today, from eBay I ordered a XG-M, $40.00. After watching your video I realized how much I liked my errant XG-7. My hope is this XG-M will fit my camera needs for a long time.
The Minolta XGM was my first SLR camera. It was a joy to use and I used the heck out of it!
I think the A stands for aperture rather than auto. Cameras with both aperture-priority auto and shutter-priority auto have A & S on the dial.
Battery dependent cameras of this era often had the ability to release the shutter without a battery at a fixed speed (often 1/60) which is sort of useful if you are desperate.
Good point. I saw it refer to Auto something in the manual. And also aperture-priority. So I think even Minolta themselves cant decide :)
It would have been so great if there was a 1/60th fallback. You can still hand-hold with a 50mm lens.
it refers to auto , it auto selects speed depending on f-stop selected
I owned an X-GM. It did not function at all without a battery, but neither do any of today's digital cameras, and the X-GM battery lasted a lot longer!
Very nice review of this camera! I had one back in the eighties and nineties, it served me very well. I sold it in the nineties to my elder brother. Today a parcel arrived. Via eBay I recently purchased a similar camera in mint condition along with a kit lens like the one in the review. It's an XG-A. This camera wasn't available in Germany but in the USA back in the 1980s. Same thing, without battery the camera merely serves as a luxury "back lens cap".
I always found a bit of softness in portraiture a good thing and enjoy the rendering of older lenses - the modern obsession with clinical sharpness is a bit excessive
I agree. These lenses were plenty sharp for Ansel Adams :)
Al Green Modern digital cameras and lenses can easily produce images which are actually sharper then the human eye would see the original scene. This often makes them look false and ironically less realistic. Photography should reproduce a scene as we see it, not as a precision instrument sees it.
Old Cameras Did Ansel Adams really use a Minolta, or are you just referring to old lenses in general?
Precision instrument is a great way to describe the problem. I combine generation one Fuji X bodies with the vintage lenses to get a rich look that appeals to me. Not much to do with 'sharpness' as such.
I have a bunch of SLRs but I always return to my XG-M and X-700. Beautifully made cameras.
I bought from Hong Kong (via my parents) an SRT 101b in 1977 when I was just 13. I did photography as a serious hobby at Grammar school. In 1981 I replaced it with a XD5 (from Singapore, via a friend of my parents) which is a mind-blowing camera with everything I could want. A year later I was photographing my cousin surfing at the beach whilst up to my knees in water. A freak wave came back out and collided with another wave, splashed my camera with 5 drops of salt water. That was the end of my XD5! I spotted an XG2 body secondhand in a camera store so I bought it. I still have it but what annoys me is when you take the shutter speed dial off "A" you have NO light metering. This model seems very similar to the XGM, but the XGM has manual light metering. Why did they design the XG2 in this way?
As I mentioned before, I actually did buy another XG-M and I couldn't be happier about it.
Thanks for the vid. I found the camera in my basement and was trying to figure out how it worked without breaking it. Thanks a lot.
You're welcome..and thanks for watching.
To think, 3.5 frames a second was the Usain bolt of cameras once upon a time!
It was blazing fast man. No lie haha
I owned an X-GM in the early eighties and still regret selling it about 10 years ago. I think I'll buy another! It went up mountains with me and even on a winter campout in Yellowstone. It never hiccuped through all of it.
I think your videos are very well done Old Cameras.. It's amazing how I only discovered you recently, yet I have been watching photography channels for years...
I love Minolta, i have XG9; XG2, Srt 101, Srt100x and the XG M, you can get them for 10-50€ with a Lens and they are a good start to learn fixing old cameras or starting with film. Nice Video, i think the right word is succinct (my english is bad). But Minolter was for consumer market only, nothing Professional. Don't pay too much for them.
Hey i have a question my Minolta g9 main switch is stuck is it fixable?
Thank you! I found one of this in my house. It belonged to an aunt, this was very useful for me to start using an anagolog camera
Om my goodness, this is such a walk down memory lane. :)
The old is new again :)
I still have my xgm on the shelf... I once had a full kit with the motor drive, motor winder, 2 x300 and 1 seagull x300 body and lenses as far as the eye could see... I never got my hands on the x700 though.... watching this makes me want to trawl the second hand market.
Nice. You know you want to pop some film in and go shooting. Do it :)
Old Cameras I'm thinking a nice kodachrome 25 film would ease the pain... It's that still available?
Just had same camera reconditioned. Found it also with the motor drive 1. But does not seem to fit perfectly. Wondering if your camera has 2 guide pin sockets for the motor drive?
@@OldCameras Just had same camera reconditioned. Found it also with the motor drive 1. But does not seem to fit perfectly. Wondering if your camera has 2 guide pin sockets for the motor drive?
Thank you for this! Just found one with a fancy lens for $3 at a yard sale!!
WOW, nice deal haha
3$?? I just paid mine 50$ CA ahah lucky you !
@@EliseLake lol me to
My grandpa gave me one that was collecting dust for free 🤣
Just inherited an XG-M, 50mm 1:2 50mm, 2:8 28mm and a 4:5 75-200mm . All in mint condition including user book. Used Olympus for years as I had been a sales rep. Just ran a few roll through the Minolta. Took some getting used to due to the increase in size. Now looking for a nice Nikon S2 and a Nikon F in good shape for using.
Just found one of these at a thrift shop with a vivitar zoom lense for 20 bucks, just needs light seals. Excited to try it out when they come in next week
only 6k subs? man the editing and info on this is on point ! great channel
You're too kind :)
The 1.4 50mm PG Rokkor is one of the Best Lenses i ever had, except the 58mm 1.4 PF Rokkor, which i like more. :D
Today they are very cheap and the best Choice (imho) for these Minoltas.
Thanks for the tip. I'm sure I'll pick something like that up one day.
This is so helpful, thank you! I have a canon ftql which is a bit different than this camera. My grandpa gave me this Minolta, so I’m currently figuring it out. 😁
After making the leap to Nikon DSLR I got rid of most of my older film cameras, the notable exceptions were my Polaroid Land Camera, and both of my Minolta XG-M's, I have a third XG-M for parts.
Man I’ve got a few Polaroid cameras sitting there. I should dust one off and give it a spin.
I would advise everyone to hang on to their Polaroid cameras, or really any old cameras they might have. They will be worth good money someday.
You don't have to press, even slightly the button, a gentle touch is enough to activate the light meter.
hi.its a very nice solid camera.with a brilliant viewfinder with both shutter speed and aperture visible in the finder.great
hi mate.. have you tried canon p? I really like it, and i think it's a very well built camera, i think you'll enjoy it. and I haven't seen anyone done good a review on it yet.. i was looking for a good review video when i bought it.. good work by the way really enjoy your videos.
Thanks for watching. No I haven't shot one of those yet. I've seen them around though and they look quite solid. One day :)
Please! How do the indicators inside the camera viewfinder work?
The XG-70 came out in 1982, a whole year later than the exact same xg-m
So I was wondering would this be a better camera than the Nikon EM?
Workmanship of these camera series as well as of my XG-A is also very well. Where can I get eyepiece correction lenses of strength -1, or -2? I'm in my fourtys now. When I was a teenager and had this camera my eyesight was much better. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Dude you have the voice for guided meditation lol it’s tight.
hahaha. Thanks.
lovely video mate..just catching up with ya,got a bit of time on my hands..
Woaaah! I literally just shot this camera today 😂 love this thing. Dope video man, I shoot film photography on my channel, would love for you to check it out!! Happy shooting :)
Do you think it's better than the minolta x-700?
Hi Ade, how does the Minolta XG-M compare to the Pentax ME Super? It looks similar. Which do you enjoy more? I enjoy your reviews especially the photos you take with each camera.
Gideon Smit hi,
It's heavier and larger than the ME Super. This also has many more features than the ME Super - but I prefer the ME Super in use.
That's great. I got the ME Super with nifty fifty lens a few weeks ago, just had my first photos back today. Some bloopers - I'm spoilt by autofocus. However, I love the small size. I'll get more used to the way it handles with time. Also got to get a wider angle lens.
Bury me with this camera.
Wow, cool camera, does it shoot 4k video in lomography?
Nikon Dslr sadly not. Only 1080P. The emulsion can't clear your 35mm surface quickly enough so it's a compromise.
he he
Old Cameras Some how, I feel that you are not taking me or my question seriously, and Infact, that you are mocking me.
@@Canonforlife58399 Okay, six years late. Seriously this is a film camera, not a digital camera. It uses rolls of film which will have total exposures such as 24 or 36. At the end of the roll you remove the roll take it or send it to be developed. Then wait for the processing and the prints to be mailed back to you. Yes, we are talking old-school. Film is an amazing beautiful medium. Its downside is it is not instant gratification.
Many folks with digital cameras shoot hundreds of photos a day, scrapping upwards of 95%-100%. With the remaining they sit in front of a computer, tablet, phone, for hours being a digital artist, not a photographer, manipulating their images. With film you knew you had at the most 36 exposures per roll, again depending on the roll size. Thus film shooters are much more deliberate about what and how they shoot. Film shooters have a considerably higher keeper percent than digital shooters.
Today's digital wedding photographer shooter often produces thousands of images of one wedding. Now they must spend hours upon hours culling through them, then back to the computer for manipulation. Back in the day film wedding photographers maybe shot four to six rolls, mostly on medium 120 mm format. With 120, depending on your camera, you would have 16, 12, or 10 frames per roll. The wedding photographer produced amazing quality images. Hope this helps you and others.
I don't know much about cameras and just got this camera. My lens is dark through the viewfinder. What is happening? I currently don't have batteries in but I didn't think you needed any to adjust the camera lens.
if i am in a auto setting what do i set the aperture ring on the green 22 or 5 6
Really informative.
Thanks for watching Jon
nice
How did you get yours to turn on 😭 I got one today and put a new battery but it still doesn't seem to work despite looking like a brand new camera...
Kimiko Kaneshiro Check if there is any corrosion in the battery case. Mine had and a drop of lemon juice (there are other ways to get rid of corrosion, google them) was enough to clean it. Now it works perfectly!
@Buchibu is correct. Also, clean the battery holder, and make sure you have the batteries properly orientated. The holder has a diagram show the battery orientation.
What type of battery is needed for this camera? Love this video btw!
Uses LR44, Batteries.
The LR44 have mercury thus are not sold in the USA. The replacement was SR44SW which has been replaced by Energizer 357-303. Requires two.
what film do you use?
which is the best? XG 1 or XG M?
What's the music
I've had one of these for a while, I can't get it to cycle film though it, does it require a battery for any use at all?
Yes. New batteries may wake it up. Without the battery, the shutter wont release. Without that, the winder wont wind.
I recently bought one but I’m having trouble finding a lens for it can someone point me in the right direction
Any MC or MD mount lens will work. The Rokkor ones by Minolta are great and good value but there are also some great third party ones. The Rokkor 45mm F2 is a great cheap lens and my favourite for street.
was the last part supposed to be in Greek?
Yes. My Greek is terrible though :)
no, it's spot on! i'm greek :)
Nick Kapenkar ah! Thank you. It's good to know :)
Hi, what kind of battery does it use?
This camera needs 2 x LR44 button batteries, available at most supermarkets in the battery section. Good luck with your camera! I have had this camera since 1985. Great film camera!
Wasn't the XD-11 the top of the line Minolta camera of that era?
yes it was, also know as XD7
Where do you buy your film?
Local shops mostly. It’s easy to find film in London
I'm curious, why are all your videos in black and white?
Easier workflow, plus visual uniformity. Daylight vs Night time recording would require a lot of colour correction.
I kind of assume it was just your style, like channel branding. I like being able to instantly recognise your videos in my subscription box, just because there black and white. Your reason makes sense too :)
Is this better then the xg 1 ?
On paper, yes. I believe the biggest difference is that the XG-M meters in manual mode, while the XG-1 doesn't.
i cant set my camera's iso ,
Okay five years late. The ASA numbers are on the shutter dial in a very small window. Lift up on the ring around the shutter speed, turn the dial. Now you will see the small ASA numbers. The term ISO is more related to Digital, whereas ASA and DiN always referred to film. Yes, being as they perform the same services ASA DiN and ISO can be thought of one in the same.
Is it battery operated?
Paolo Que yep you need batteries or else you won’t be able to use it !!
So where does the SD card fit?
flic.kr/p/SURtwr
"A" mode is for AUTO, as in PROGRAM...
On this model, you set “A” for aperture priority. Select your aperture and the camera selects shutter speed.
Dear Ade,
Canny video as always:)
For anyone(or you) wanting more information about all things Minolta, recommend www.rokkorfiles.com site. If he doesn't have the answer, then it probably doesn't exist!
Regards,
Rokkorfiles is great. Some additional info can be found on minolta.eazypix.de/. For lens views and german-speakers this page has some great info as well: www.artaphot.ch/minolta-sr
2nd :-)))
What next, sunshine? So close 👈🏿😄
😄😄😄 right, why go to work even. Let's just hang out on each others channels all day and post quality comments. Right, Simone. Pull yourself together ;-)) Quality comments! :-)))
hahahah. good idea :)
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I am pretty sure that A stands for Auto - if its on the time dial it standing for Automatic time