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Post by paulatukcamera on Feb 9, 2006 17:14:52 GMT -5
Had a good play with my Minolta XGM yesterday Why does one pay more? Haven't a clue - it seems to be the ideal picture taking machine Take a look at the Contact Print - 39/39 and for once no focusing errors - easier to focus than my Nikon FE2s  Locations - Started off with my Grandson in Llandysul Park, then went to Aberaeron (Georgian town with brightly coloured houses) last weekend - one Harbour photo and the battery went flat! So most were taken in and around Newcastle Emlyn yesterday afternoon - Castle, River from the castle and town bridge, The colour seems to have become a bit "gaudy" in the scanning process so may need adjusting. I have deliberately not tweaked them in a photo editor - straight scans reduced in size only           Not bad for $11! Paul |
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Post by John Parry on Feb 9, 2006 19:00:49 GMT -5
Like the arch in 7. The arch profile is very unusual - not a norman semicircle, or the usual type of 'pointy topped' arch. Any history on that?
The phone box in 9 is - a phone box. Yours has definitely been repainted in the last five years - the last one of that vintage I visited, I had to slit the spider's webs to get the door open - also the sun had got to it, and it was pink !!
Regards - John
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Post by Randy on Feb 9, 2006 19:14:49 GMT -5
Very nice Paul, I love the arch picture! I have 12 cameras in the Minolta XG series and they are very capable cameras.
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Post by vintageslrs on Feb 9, 2006 19:47:03 GMT -5
Paul
very nice shots with the XGM........
and you're right...why do we pay more?
and why do we keep buying more?
but you know we do and we will......... ;D
enjoy
Bob
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Post by kamera on Feb 9, 2006 20:36:45 GMT -5
Paul,
You did get nice shots. And I too often get good ones on an inexpensive camera with a relatively inexpensive lens. Have also wondered why I spend hundreds more for a 'quality' camera. I think sometimes we(even subconsciously) get greedy and just have to have something better.
My Olympus Infinity Stylus Epic takes the greatest shots for a point 'n shoot camera.
Ron Head
Kalamazoo, MI
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Post by Rachel on Feb 10, 2006 4:35:01 GMT -5
Love the pictures Paul. Brings back memories of holidays in West Wales.
This prompts me to get my XG-M out and put some film through it.
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Post by mickeyobe on Feb 10, 2006 5:33:14 GMT -5
Paul,
I would be quite pleased with myself if I had taken any of those splendid pictures.
Mickey
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Post by Microdad on Feb 10, 2006 8:12:24 GMT -5
Those are fantastic shots Paul!
Steve
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Post by kamera on Feb 10, 2006 8:42:27 GMT -5
Steve,
Just noted your comment of "Photo Nerd" under your avatar. You do not look like my idea of the stereotype nerd. You need a white shirt, bow tie, eyeglasses and a shirt pocket full of pens.
Ron Head
Kalamazoo, MI
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Post by PeterW on Feb 10, 2006 9:15:18 GMT -5
Hi Paul,
Just got around to looking more closely at your contact prints.
Years ago a photo mag - I think it may have been Photography - ran a sort of competition with no prizes, but the subject was 'Six from Thirty-Six'. The whole roll had to be shot in one day. They reckoned that if you got six good pictures from a roll you'd done OK.
Judging from the ten you enlarged in your post, and looking at some of the others, you've gone way past that target. Never mind how much the camera cost, though I've got to agree it was a fantastic bargain, the camera doesn't make the picture, as I've said before. It can only record what the photographer sees. Well done - d..n well done in fact!
Peter
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Post by Microdad on Feb 10, 2006 23:19:56 GMT -5
Ron, I had to "dress-up" for that avatar shot leaving my nerd accessories home in the dresser  Steve |
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Post by John Parry on Feb 11, 2006 9:05:49 GMT -5
Anyone know what the lenses on the MG-M are? M42?
Regards - John
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Post by paulatukcamera on Feb 11, 2006 10:27:22 GMT -5
No standard Minolta bayonet.
The later ones are called MD and the earlier ones MC
I am not certain where the divide was, but I suspect the XD7, the first multimode, required a bit more information transmitted.
The good news is that MDs will fit earlier ones with no problems (I think!)
Getting out of my depth here fast - lets ask a Minolta expert.
Paul
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Post by rover on Feb 12, 2006 12:15:31 GMT -5
Well, I bought a book on camera repair and just bid on a bunch of SRT 101 cameras to play with. Hopefully I land a couple willing $11 test subjects and get a chance to do some surgery. I am not willing to open up any of my current cameras, I have cut the herd down to a group of good working bodies.
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Post by kamera on Feb 12, 2006 14:53:28 GMT -5
I am not sure exactly when the MD came into existence either, but they were what was supposed to be used on the X700 which I had early on.
The older MC's can be used, but do not work in 'automatic'.
Ron Head
Kalamazoo, MI
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