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Post by Rachel on Sept 28, 2005 6:01:24 GMT -5
I went to a camera fair on Sunday and bought this Minolta XG-M body. It is in "like new" condition and had just been serviced. I have a small collection of Minolta SLR equipment. I'd like to add some older models. I can recall adverts for the SRT series when I was a youngster.
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Post by Randy on Sept 28, 2005 6:44:50 GMT -5
That's one model I don't have Rachel. Out of the XG Series, I have every model except for the XG-A and the XG-M. I'm really into the SRT Series, I have 20 of them. One thing that makes the Manual Minoltas attractive is that they all can use the same lenses. Good luck with that camera!
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Post by kamera on Sept 28, 2005 7:11:46 GMT -5
Rachel,
Nice find!!
I still use my Minolta SRT's quite frequently. Am really attached to the SRT101 I have as it was my first SLR. Early this year I had it reconditioned by an old Minolta plant camera assembler who has a repair shop in California. In addition to CLA, etc., he put on a hot shoe and recalibrated the meter to take the 1.5v silver oxide battery.
My others are an SRT 201 and 202; and an XE-7. My collection of Minoltas is also comprised of a Himatic F, 110 SLR, an old disc camera and a 16. Have no new Minoltas at all.
Ron Head Kalamazoo, MI
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Post by PeterW on Sept 28, 2005 13:10:32 GMT -5
That looks really nice, Rachel. At the moment (famous last words) I haven't got any Minoltas except a little 16mm. None have ever turned up at the right price (and my 'right price' has to be a silly price). No doubt if any do I will get one ... or two ... or ...
I've heard excellent reports from people who own them, but I doubt whether I'll come near Randy's 20 SRTs and herd of XGs. Surely not all different SRTs, Randy? I'm a bit vague about it but I had the idea there were about a dozen or so different SRTs at most. Unless, of course, you count black ones and store branded ones as different models.
When did the SRT range start, and how long did it run? I seem to remember launch adverts in Amateur Photographer and SLR Camera magazines somewhere around the time my daughter was born, 1966, but I don't remember when it was superseded.
Peter
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Post by Randy on Sept 28, 2005 18:22:54 GMT -5
The Minolta SR-T101 was introduced in 1965 as the first Minolta with through the lens metering. The last of the Minolta SR series, the Minolta SR-7v was released the same year. The SR series had external or outside the lens meters. My SR-T101 came from a former Stars and Stripes Photographer, and he purchased it "In Country" while on duty in Nam. This camera is the one that got the obsession going. I keep trying to get the thing to tell me stories, but it isn't talking as of yet. I think I've read that there were 34 different versions of the SRT camera. I have 100s, 101s, 102s, 201s, and 202s in black and chrome. I have a 100X, 303, 303b, SR505, SR-TMC, SR-TMCII, SR-TSC, SR-TSCII, and some others I'd have to go look at to see what they are as I've lost count of my Minoltas. I guess that's when I realized I was a Camera Collector Peter, when I lost count of how many cameras I have! LOL ;D
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Post by PeterW on Sept 29, 2005 5:22:07 GMT -5
Thanks for the run-down, Randy. I had no idea there were so many variants. I too have lost count of how many cameras I have. I think it's around 200+ but then occasionally I get a lovely surprise by unpacking a box and finding a camera I had forgotten about, or thought I had sold. The last one I 'rediscovered' was an Ensign Cupid, a basic but quite sweet little camera from the 1920s. I know its not an SLR but anyway here's a pic of it. Peter
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Post by Randy on Sept 29, 2005 6:04:13 GMT -5
The sights on that camera remind me of the gun sights on the Red Baron's Fokker Triplane.
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Post by PeterW on Sept 29, 2005 13:30:26 GMT -5
I seem to remember years ago Jason Schneider linking Cupids and the Red Baron in one of the delightfully written pieces on old cameras he used to do in Shutterbug. But as it was made by 'our' side, let's settle for the gun sights on a Sopwith Camel or SE5 BTW, the odd looking snout is because it was originally designed to be a stereo camera taking something like 18 stereo pairs, each picture about 1 1/2 inches by 1 inch on 120 film, but the idea was dropped. Peter
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Post by kamera on Sept 29, 2005 17:22:11 GMT -5
Peter,
Definately a unique camera!!! And yes...I am reminded of a gun sight and the Red Baron.
Ron
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Post by Randy on Sept 29, 2005 18:35:32 GMT -5
Awww Peter, the Red Baron can't be all that bad, Snoopy liked him.
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