Minolta SRT Keeps Going

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Thanks for looking and for commenting. The place where I took the posted photographs is now in full Spring/early Summer. The SRT is ready to go but getting ready for our big move (from house to apartment) is still taking a lot of time.

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Bill, did you get the 45/2 lens with the camera? I have that lens and mostly like it, except the close-focus distance is greater than other lenses. I did notice that you used a close-up lens with it.

I like what you did with it. Has summer finally arrived up there?


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Mike,
When I bought the SRT-SCii it was fitted with a 50mm f/2 which performed very well. I don't remember exactly how I got the 45mm f/2, but I wound up with several of them; they seem a little out of place on the heavy SRT, but the results are good. For me the big plus is the focal length-- it just seems to have just that bit of extra coverage that comes in handy; same experience with the 45mm on my Minolta HiMatic 7S. You're right that every so often with the 45mm on the SRT I need to get a little closer than the lens will go and have to use a CU lens.


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Outstanding. I have a box of Minolta cameras and lenses I sealed up because I never used them. I know there is an SRT 100 and a 202 in the box along with a bunch of X body and other cameras. I have lenses for them from 19mm through 300 mm. Maybe it is time to start selling them as they are taking up room and I prefer my Nikons Sorry if that sounded insulting it was not meant to be. I even have an auto winder in that box I think. I put them in plastic bags then into the box to save shelf room.

It is not a small box. :D


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Larry, I bet the Minolta lenses and bodies will be in fine shape when you unseal the box-- for use or for sale. I suppose some of the Minolta mf lenses can be adapted to some digital cameras. I haven't tried that, though i do have a Sony DSLR that does fine with Maxxum mount lenses.

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Yep they will go to that big auction place sooner or later. Fine cameras it's just that I can't see using good space for something I am not using.


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I got hooked on a Minolta SRT-101 by an ad on the back cover of Nat Geo back in 1966 when God was a boy. It was a great camera and my first with wide-open TTL metering. It's main diet was Eastman Plus-X motion picture stock rated at 80 ASA in D76 1:1. The meter was uncannily good, especially in contre' jour situations. And that lens! It was a 58mm f1.4 MC Rokkor with a greenish coating with nice high contrast. Kodachromes would especially look crisp and saturated.
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I think I have a 202 that needs a little work. it advances but the film stays in place. the clip where the film attaches to the take up spools stays in place as the center post rotates.


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Graham - that is a great landscape. Not to speak of the model!

The Minoltas of this vintage are probably one of the best buys these days - very good lenses at reasonable prices. Supposing you need another system, that is.


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