Minolta Help Needed

[mayberryman]

I am not sure if I am posting this in the correct section however, here goes. I just purchased a Minolta SR-1s at a local indoor flea market. The camera seems clean and functions well and in a couple of days I will take it out and test it. I was wondering about the age of this camera and how much did I over pay for it at $15? I hope this does not go as me attempting to get an estimate on the camera because that is not really my intention as I plan on keeping it and adding it to my meager collection of my 3 X-370s and my 100.

A funny side note on the reason I have three X-370s, at one time I was taking pictures of both stock-car racing and Bicycle BMX racing and I always took two cameras to the track. This was in the late 80s to the mid 90s. Well, I had replaced the batteries (two 357s) in the cameras a couple of times but I had one camera lock up so I went to E-Bay to purchase a replacement. To make a long story short, I purchased another 370 and being the person who wants everything to be ready person that I am, I replaced the batteries in the newly purchased 370 and that one locked up. I opened the battery compartment on the one working camera and found that in the other two I had put the batteries in upside down.

[Randy]

Well, I'm not being obtuse here, but most of us camera collectors don't sit and mull about how much we spent or over spent for a camera. If this SR1s has a good shutter, and the viewfinder is fairly clear, you got a hell of a deal. If it has the clip on meter, you stole it.

[grenouille]

Its a good deal, Regards

Hye

[mayberryman]

Aug 12, 2012 22:14:32 GMT -5 Randy said:

Well, I'm not being obtuse here, but most of us camera collectors don't sit and mull about how much we spent or over spent for a camera. If this SR1s has a good shutter, and the viewfinder is fairly clear, you got a hell of a deal. If it has the clip on meter, you stole it.

Randy, I never thought you were being obtuse, however, I am still in the stage of deciding if I am a camera collector or a camera accumulator so I most likely will have to learn Camera Collector Jargon better. In all honesty the little I do attempt to learn about pricing I do on E-bay watching the highs and lows as compared to the apparent condition. The bad part is that I have not seen (that I remember) many SR1s listed to get a lay of the land idea.

[SuperDeluxe]

I'd say that any Minolta SLR that works and is clean is a steal for $15

In my experience, Collectiblend is a good reference for prices (http://collectiblend.com/Cameras/Minolta/Minolta-SR-1-S.html), however I've found that market prices tend to be lower than what the site says. Your new camera, per Collectiblend, is 48 years old.

[mickeyobe]

I wonder if McKeown's will be bringing out a new edition of 'Cameras'.

Their latest is 6 years old.

In addition to reasonable (usually) up to date (usually) prices their information about cameras is (always) much appreciated.

Mickey

P.S.
When they do I hope it is in two volumes. Arthritis does not like heavy tomes.

[Randy]

The SR-7v had the same body as the SR-1s. The SRT-101 was the next to be released.