Camera and Coffee
- Thread starter Rich Silfver
- Start date
- Latest activity Latest activity:
- Replies 6K
- Views 1M
serif
Member
Colors.
No camera on the photo this time, but it was taken with one!
Fujifilm xt30, TTArtisan 27mm f2.8
p.giannakis
Pan Giannakis
Camera and (almost no) coffee, on my way to a National Trust visit to Wightwick manor.
caila77
Well-known
santino
FSU gear head
It is quite pleasing to see so many Minolta users, I like them too for good reason!
petronius
Veteran
Alpha 7 with adapted Rollei Triotar; Lavazza, Bialetti made
p.giannakis
Pan Giannakis
Camera and (happy) coffee
eckhardf
Established
Interesting.... Black coffee and a "milky" lens 😁
JeffS7444
Well-known
Blue skies and smiles!
DownUnder
awol (temporarily I hope)
Gosh, it has been ages since I've seen a Minolta SR-3.
In the good old days now long past I had an SRT-101. I bought it 1974 in Sydney from a Swedish friend who had picked it up duty free in Stockholm. I recall I paid AUD $150 for it. Dragged it all over Asia with online lens, the 50 1.4. Later on I acquired an adapter to use Pentax Takumars and Hanimex bottle bottom glass lenses on it, but I found the images the latter lenses made weren't really up to the rendering of the Rokkor.
I sold many photos taken with that 101. It lasted til' the mid-1980s when I traded in a lot of gear to fund a Leica M2.
Both cameras I still wish I had kept.
p.giannakis
Pan Giannakis
It is a black SR-1, one of those cameras that they are very rare to find - the second rarest Minolta after a black SR-2. It came out in small production numbers (smaller than that of the SR-2) in three versions with minor changes (mine is the Mark-2 with the shutter speed numbers being evenly distributed on the shutter speed dial). Unfortunately, despite its rarety, it doesn't really worth much online (monetary speaking).
No instant return mirror (which makes it a bit more silent), no meter either but I think it has very nice proportions and aesthetics (it is smaller that the subsequent SR-3 with the meter bracket, the SR-7 with the external meter and the bigger SR-T). A small number of them had a factor upgrade with split rangefinder screen - mine is one of those.
But unfortunately I don't use it much. A few years ago I sent it for service and came back in better working order but I noticed that there are some issues with focusing - either the focusing screen is not sitting right, or there is a problem with mirror or the mount was not put right - any picture focused below 3m with apertures lower than 5.6 are blurry.
Unfortunately the guy who serviced it retired so I couldn't send it back. It is waiting now in the queue to be repaired again.
Last edited:
Photar
Down Under
Preparing to scan a few 6x7 slides with Leica CL, Schneider-Kreuznach Unifoc 25, Focotar-2 50mm and a flat white.
Taken with Leica M10-R, Macro-Adapter-M, Focotar-2 50mm.
Taken with Leica M10-R, Macro-Adapter-M, Focotar-2 50mm.
caila77
Well-known
a very nice lens...and camera
Minolta Rokkor 58mm f/1.4: a lens with personality
I have always appreciated vintage lenses, especially those with personality-not necessarily the sharpest or most correct, but the most distinguishable. The Minolta Rokkor 58/1.4 lens is certa…
justknocking.wordpress.com
caila77
Well-known
CMur12
Veteran
a very nice lens...and camera
Minolta Rokkor 58mm f/1.4: a lens with personality
I have always appreciated vintage lenses, especially those with personality-not necessarily the sharpest or most correct, but the most distinguishable. The Minolta Rokkor 58/1.4 lens is certa…
Thanks for the article.
A bit of information not included there, is that this lens has a focal length of 58mm so that it would not have to be a retro-focus design. (A focal length of 50mm would have required it.) With a simpler, non-retro-focus formula, the simpler 6-element design was adequate.
The Achromatic Coating was two layers of coating, a decided advantage over the single layer of most of the competition until multi-coating emerged upon the scene.
- Murray
p.giannakis
Pan Giannakis
Hmm...
When I took this lens apart to clean the aperture mechanism from oil, I noticed that the inner group (facing the aperture blades) had different colour coating than the front elements. Is that what you mean?
CMur12
Veteran
My understanding was that it was two layers of coating on each glass surface. It's possible that they used different coatings on different elements.
In the case of Minolta's later multi-coated lenses (MD, at least), they didn't apply the same coatings to every lens surface. Rather, they used different coating formulations on different lens elements to maintain consistent color and contrast throughout the lens line, thus compensating for different color/contrast characteristics among different lens designs. I know that Zeiss, and possibly most other brands, applied identical coatings to every lens surface.
Another interesting fact. As far as I know, Minolta and Nikon were the only Japanese camera brands to make their own optical glass.
- Murray
Last edited:
caila77
Well-known
Minolta pioneered its "Achromatic coating" which was two layers of magnesium fluoride deposited in different thicknesses. I do not have evidence if this means two Layers of different thicknesses on only one glass or two different layers on two different glasses.
Last edited:
38Deardorff
Well-known
Just arrived from Japan. Smooth as silk...just need to run some film through it. 1st year lllG. Thanks to Matthew for the new Strapateer Type D
JeffS7444
Well-known
Caffeinated beverages give way to chilled water by late afternoon.
Nikkormat FS and 50/2 Nikkor-H are the latest photo toys to emerge from my repair queue. As received, both were in dire need of a CLA, but were bargain-priced as a result.
Nikkormat FS and 50/2 Nikkor-H are the latest photo toys to emerge from my repair queue. As received, both were in dire need of a CLA, but were bargain-priced as a result.