Minolta SRT's -- Gotta Love 'Em.

I never came across a poor Minolta Rokkor lens until a couple of weeks ago when I passed up a 45mm f/2 at the flea market that was full of fungus and what looks like water damage. The seller wanted $60. He is unlikely to sell..
 
Getting 250 Exposure SR-M Parts Together.

Getting 250 Exposure SR-M Parts Together.

Received a Minolta FL-90 Bulk Film Loader (from KEH) complete and in mint condition. This was designed for the later Maxxum 90 exposure bulk backs, but can be reset in the dark to load 250 exposure Minolta Film Cartridges for the SR-M, and also for the Motorized XK. I have six of the Minolta 250 exposure Film Cartridges, so far. Eastman 5222 motion picture film is probably what I will use initially. Still looking for the SR-M 250 Exposure Film Film Back, with the proper cables.

Also bought a replacement 28mm F2.5 MC Rokkor-SI from Ebay. Gave away my perfect one, to my older son, when I gifted him with a Minolta SRT complete kit. Have been looking for a good one, for a while.
 

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Was given an SRT102 with a 50 Rokkor lens a number of years ago, that had been left behind by a distant relative of my wife. It was in sad shape and I put in many hours bringing it back to fully functioning condition. Shot a test roll of Tri-X and fell in love with the beautiful subtle B&W toning the lens produced.

Put it aside and about a month later, one of my wife's family members, not knowing it was completely restored, gave it to Goodwill. By the time I found out and went to retrieve it, it had already been sold.

REALLY miss that camera.

Best,
-Tim
 
back alley said:
my 202/45 is still in the mail...
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Joe,

I think you will like the SRT202. It was the very last, top-of-the-line SRT. Had an extra-bright Acute Focusing Screen, so it is nice and bright to look through, along with some other more advanced features. Here is mine, which I covered in Griptac from Cameraleather, which makes it very grippy even in hot weather. The 58mm F1.4 MC PF Rokkor makes a nice classic accompaniment.
 

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Timmyjoe said:
Was given an SRT102 with a 50 Rokkor lens a number of years ago, that had been left behind by a distant relative of my wife. It was in sad shape and I put in many hours bringing it back to fully functioning condition. Shot a test roll of Tri-X and fell in love with the beautiful subtle B&W toning the lens produced.

Put it aside and about a month later, one of my wife's family members, not knowing it was completely restored, gave it to Goodwill. By the time I found out and went to retrieve it, it had already been sold.

REALLY miss that camera.

Best,
-Tim
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that had to hurt!
 
Minolta Holiday Gifts For Me.

Minolta Holiday Gifts For Me.

From KEH a Minolta XK Waist Level Finder. Also from KEH, a Minolta 55mm 80B filter (filter cost a whopping 89 cents) 😀
Shown also is my new 28mm F2.5 MC Rokkor, this is the one with the rare-earth elements. My first one was hazy and very dark yellow to look through. It went into my Minolta junk box.

From Ebay, the Minolta Connecting Cord for the Minolta Intervalometer-S. Cobbled this together with a male SR-M plug. The Intervalometer-S is working properly, firing my SR-M at precise preselected intervals. Pretty cool when this stuff works properly after forty+ years 😎 Now I just need to solder and shrink-wrap the cord, and I'm good to go.
 

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Too bad.

You know, I may have an SRT 102 hanging around which was CLA'd before I bought it, but not used in a little while. Hmmm, l will have to look, maybe we can work a deal if you are intersted.
 
Argenticien said:
35/1.8 price ... good grief. So ... for those of us with 1.8 sticker shock: how's the 35/2.8, other than obviously about 1.3 stop slower? (I'm talking old full-metal MC lenses here, not newer MC Rokkor-X or MD, only because I collect the oldies for their heft and solidity.)
--Dave
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I paid $20 for my 35mm F2.8 MC Rokkor at a camera show. KEH has them at $35-$49 right now. It is an exceptionally good lens, in my opinion, very underrated. It's nice to have F1.8 (have that one too) but I don't always use it wide-open. Mostly inside and at night. Or, use a flash.

Auction prices can get crazy when you get a few parties involved that want something. I think if you keep looking, you can find one for less than $271
 
I dunno 300 seems like a fair price for that lens.

58/1.2s are going for north of 450 now unconverted and while it aint cheap having owned one Id say it's worth it. the only thing that kills it for me is the camera bodies.
 
@Dan: Thanks for that; I did see the BGN 2.8s for those prices at KEH and was tempted. (You can even get mint ones elsewhere for about $75.) Glad to hear you've had good experience with it. I have a gap between 28mm and 50mm.

@red: Well, I was reluctantly concluding this price was about fair ... hence my thinking I'll have to make do with the 2.8 lens. I didn't mean to imply it was necessarily unfair; just that it was out of my price range. 🙂 Like you, I too consider the bodies attached to these lenses. When it's a $15 lens, and there's a $20 camera attached that's redundant to one I already have, I do think twice, especially with shopgoodwill.com who tend to have expensive shipping, priced by weight. If a camera adds $10 cost to a $250+ lens (as the crappy 101 on this 35/1.8 would do, at best), that's noise that wouldn't worry me too much. What's more deal-breaking to me is when they put a good lens in a large lot with three gigantic, metal, slow 1970s zooms that weigh a kg each and add $20 to the shipping cost and are probably not worth having anyway.

--Dave
 
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Could not resist this...
 
The MC-Rokkors with the deeply scalloped metal focus rings, like this one,^ are my favorites. I realize the later Rokkors with smaller filter ring sizes are probably optically "better" (mainly due to improved coatings), but they don't seem as well made.
 
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