agi
Well-known
Taken with a Hi Matic 7sii - San Francisco's Chinatown. This one always cracked me up.
CK Dexter Haven
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Now that you bastids have fueled my interest in yet another camera....
Tell me, please: how are the Hi-Matics in operation? Some are fully automatic and some have Shutter Priority which works the way most cameras work with AP? That is, the lens speeds replace the apertures on the lens ring? So, you're dialing in speeds and watching the aperture via needle in the viewfinder? I'm so used to AP and never EVER use shutter priority, but this just seems like a transposition, not necessarily a change in how i would work. Except.... With aperture, i don't have to look at the setting to see if i've accidentally dialed in something that will give me motion blur. With shutter speeds on the dial, are you shown the timing in the viewfinder also, or do you have to be careful not to select something too slow?
Tell me, please: how are the Hi-Matics in operation? Some are fully automatic and some have Shutter Priority which works the way most cameras work with AP? That is, the lens speeds replace the apertures on the lens ring? So, you're dialing in speeds and watching the aperture via needle in the viewfinder? I'm so used to AP and never EVER use shutter priority, but this just seems like a transposition, not necessarily a change in how i would work. Except.... With aperture, i don't have to look at the setting to see if i've accidentally dialed in something that will give me motion blur. With shutter speeds on the dial, are you shown the timing in the viewfinder also, or do you have to be careful not to select something too slow?
The Standard Deviant
inanimated.co.uk
The Hi-matic 7s has rings to control shutter speed and aperture on full manual, or there is a completely automatic mode, but nothing between.
amhildreth
Hootie-Hoo
The hi-matic F is basically a point-and-shoot with manual focus. There are no aperture or shutter adjustments, but it's still a great little camera
andredossantos
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andredossantos
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Harlee
Well-known
Minolta Himatic S
Minolta Himatic S
I find myself carrying my Himatic S camera with me quite a bit when traveling. The "S" is a zone focus camera with a F2.7 lens which is very sharp in my opinion. I really like it.
Minolta Himatic S
I find myself carrying my Himatic S camera with me quite a bit when traveling. The "S" is a zone focus camera with a F2.7 lens which is very sharp in my opinion. I really like it.
macgeorge
Member
Minolta Hi-Matic F
stillshunter
unlearning digital habits
A new one for me…
portrait of 903 by stillshunter, on Flickr
...well certainly not the subject - just a quick glance at my Flickr stream will find you tagging me the Cowman or the Bovine Bloke - but the kit and development combination are a new thing.
Kit:
Bought a Minolta Himatic 7sii recently. Was very neglected indeed - hence the good price. So I cleaned it a while ago and took it for a run - not so good. The arrival of light seals from Jon Goodman prompted me to revisit the camera a little more intensely. Yesterday's first film trial was a very different story altogether.
The first thing that struck me about the 7sii was that the build quality seemed wanting, compared to other 70s rangefinders I've shot - namely Canonet QL17, Olympus SP and RC and Konica S3. In a nutshell the 7sii felt a little hollow and wobbly by comparison. But after a time it really grew on me. This Himatic's controls are well-placed and it has a nice balance of features - better size than the Oly SP, better manual control than the S3, much faster than the RC and that Rokkor lens blows the Canonet clean out of the water. Actually blows all out of the water other than the S3 on pure resolving power, but the Rokkor seems to have more character - a character reminiscent of the Zeiss lenses (50/2 and 35/2.8) I sported on the M2. A little use shows the 7sii is a very worthwhile proposition indeed.
Development:
I've returned to shooting TMY (T-Max 400) and it is like coming home - I absolutely love this emulsion. I also tried a developer I've never used before - Ilford Perceptol. It is lauded for its extra fine grain and I thought it might complement the T-grains nicely. I was not wrong. This stuff is soooo creamy and very low grain, though it seems to be at the expense of a little contrast and sharpness. Personally it gives the images a feel that really resonates with me. Though the base colour of the negatives when you pull them out of the post-rinse is a shock!
BTW: the above image was scanned and LR4 used to clone out three dust spots and convert to jpg. That's it! No curves adjustment, masking, sharpening, noise reduction, gamma blah, blah!
Love film!
portrait of 903 by stillshunter, on Flickr
...well certainly not the subject - just a quick glance at my Flickr stream will find you tagging me the Cowman or the Bovine Bloke - but the kit and development combination are a new thing.
Kit:
Bought a Minolta Himatic 7sii recently. Was very neglected indeed - hence the good price. So I cleaned it a while ago and took it for a run - not so good. The arrival of light seals from Jon Goodman prompted me to revisit the camera a little more intensely. Yesterday's first film trial was a very different story altogether.
The first thing that struck me about the 7sii was that the build quality seemed wanting, compared to other 70s rangefinders I've shot - namely Canonet QL17, Olympus SP and RC and Konica S3. In a nutshell the 7sii felt a little hollow and wobbly by comparison. But after a time it really grew on me. This Himatic's controls are well-placed and it has a nice balance of features - better size than the Oly SP, better manual control than the S3, much faster than the RC and that Rokkor lens blows the Canonet clean out of the water. Actually blows all out of the water other than the S3 on pure resolving power, but the Rokkor seems to have more character - a character reminiscent of the Zeiss lenses (50/2 and 35/2.8) I sported on the M2. A little use shows the 7sii is a very worthwhile proposition indeed.
Development:
I've returned to shooting TMY (T-Max 400) and it is like coming home - I absolutely love this emulsion. I also tried a developer I've never used before - Ilford Perceptol. It is lauded for its extra fine grain and I thought it might complement the T-grains nicely. I was not wrong. This stuff is soooo creamy and very low grain, though it seems to be at the expense of a little contrast and sharpness. Personally it gives the images a feel that really resonates with me. Though the base colour of the negatives when you pull them out of the post-rinse is a shock!
BTW: the above image was scanned and LR4 used to clone out three dust spots and convert to jpg. That's it! No curves adjustment, masking, sharpening, noise reduction, gamma blah, blah!
Love film!
stillshunter
unlearning digital habits
This image deserves to be revisited. Superb, simply superb!Minolta 7SII + Kodak gold 100 @ 1/60-125th
Moto-Uno
Moto-Uno
Hold Me In Your Arms
This Hi-Matic E has an exposure system (and that lens !!!) that has me hitting 100%.
This model feels quite substantial in hand and the shutter is whisper quiet. Peter
This Hi-Matic E has an exposure system (and that lens !!!) that has me hitting 100%.
This model feels quite substantial in hand and the shutter is whisper quiet. Peter
petronius
Veteran
With my Hi-Matic C
Super picture!
rwintle
Scientist by day
Minolta Hi-Matic 11, which has a very nice Rokkor-PF 45/1.7. The fastest piece of glass I own, come to think of it. The camera is quite nice to shoot, but very big compared to other RF's I have. Not as heavy as some, though.
I have posted a couple of these in other threads before - hope that doesn't bother anyone.
Kodak Gold 200:
Arista Premium 400:
More from this camera here, if you're interested:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ricardipus/sets/72157633119525426/
I have posted a couple of these in other threads before - hope that doesn't bother anyone.
Kodak Gold 200:
Arista Premium 400:
More from this camera here, if you're interested:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ricardipus/sets/72157633119525426/
markus_h_photography
Established
Shot with my 7s on HP5+ rated at 1600 hence the grain.
Uncle Fester
Well-known
I'm enjoying my little black 7sII pretty much, and with every next roll I am getting more impressed by the quality/sharpness of the camera and the lens, even on slow speed.
Sometimes I hate it because I'm not hearing the shutter
This is a very fine photograph. If the Hi-Matics were still being made and I worked for Minolta in a position of influnce, I would do what I could to have this picture appear in a Minolta sales brochure or an ad, detailing which camera was used and giving the photographer full credit for the image. This photo cleary shows just how good the Rokkor lenses really were.
I really need to dig out my Hi-Matic 9 and see if I can contribute a worthy photo to this thread. There is some nice work here, but this one in particular really speaks to me.
Elmar Lang
Well-known
Back in the early '70s, my father bought a Hi-Matic7s at an US Army's PX in Germany, when he was on duty in Oberammergau (Germany). Until then, he used a Contax-S, but it was forgotten at home. He immediately enjoyed both the lens and overall quality of his new Minolta.
That camera is still at home, perfectly working, but I think I've used it very few.
I think I'll try it again!
Best wishes,
Enzo
That camera is still at home, perfectly working, but I think I've used it very few.
I think I'll try it again!
Best wishes,
Enzo
Dirk
Privatier
Elmar Lang
Well-known
A fine bw picture indeed.
The mask is directly inspiredby one of the famous, fake "Modigliani's heads" that puzzled many art scholars in the year 1984; one of the most hilarious jokes, done by a little group of students in Livorno, Italy.
E.L.
The mask is directly inspiredby one of the famous, fake "Modigliani's heads" that puzzled many art scholars in the year 1984; one of the most hilarious jokes, done by a little group of students in Livorno, Italy.
E.L.
