Camera and Coffee

[jonal928]

Small pleasures
BG7P4974 S3 by Jeri Leibovits, on Flickr

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[serif]

Colors.

No camera on the photo this time, but it was taken with one!

Fujifilm xt30, TTArtisan 27mm f2.8

 

[p.giannakis]

Camera and (almost no) coffee, on my way to a National Trust visit to Wightwick manor.

 

[caila77]

After 10 days abroad I need a typical italian coffee🤣

 

[santino]

It is quite pleasing to see so many Minolta users, I like them too for good reason!

 

[petronius]

Alpha 7 with adapted Rollei Triotar; Lavazza, Bialetti made

 

[p.giannakis]

Camera and (happy) coffee

 

[eckhardf]

Camera and (happy) coffee

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Interesting.... Black coffee and a "milky" lens 😁

 

[JeffS7444]

Camera and (happy) coffee

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Blue skies and smiles!

 

[DownUnder]

Camera and (happy) coffee

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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]

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.

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.

 

[Photar]

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.