Minolta SRT's -- Gotta Love 'Em.

Here are some Minolta items, freshly overhauled by John Titterton. I tend to send repairs out in January and Febuary, so I have them back by the spring thaw. 🙄

My well-worn Minolta XE-7 did not need any parts, which is good, cause John has run out of a lot of them. Contacts were cleaned and that fixed the problem of the shutter locking open, and staying open. Now I really love this camera, a wonderful backup to my Minolta XK 😎 Shown with the 500mm F8 MD Rokkor, a great combo for grab-n-go wildlife shooting in my backyard. The autoexposure XE-7 works just great with the fixed aperture 500mm mirror lens. I'm thinking of covering the XE-7 and XK with dark griptac....

Also back from John, my mint SRT-202 covered with dark Griptac from Cameraleather. This camera I bought from the RFF classifieds at the beginning of this thread. It has the Minolta acute matte screen, and fresnel/rangefinder wedge combo that works great with certain of my lenses. Shown with my 35mm F2.8 MC Rokkor, this lens has been hard to find in decent shape. John did a wonderful job cleaning the extremely greasy blades, it functions like new now. I highly recommend John and he is extremely quick on turnaround. Usually just a few days, how can you beat that? 😛
 

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More On SRT Diopters.

More On SRT Diopters.

stompyq said:
I just recently got a SRT101 and find it very difficult to focus using the microprism. By contrast I have no problems with a olympus OM2 or my Pentax 67. Are the screens on this camera user replaceable? Is there anything I can do to make it slightly easier to focus this thing?
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I guess my eyes are getting old 🙄 or for whatever reason, but I do notice it is harder to sharply focus on the groundglass in my cameras. I dug out my supply of SRT Diopters, and tried them all with the lens focused at infinity, as the directions recommend. I decided that the VPN #3 works best, now I can see the individual grains in the screen, which is about as good as it gets. I also have a few of the VPN #1 screen, which also improves things greatly for me. So my goal will be to put a diopter into the back of each body. I can usually find these VPN diopters for $5-$10 each from the usual sources.

Here you can see the VPN #3 installed in my ringneck lizard SRT101. No viewfinder cutoff at all (even with my eyeglasses), it's still high eyepoint, and comfortable to look through. But now the viewfinder and screen is really SHARP.

Also, I always use the Minolta Eyecup when metering. I have noticed that under certain circumstances stray light can enter the eypiece and slightly affect the meter readings.
 

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Here is my present collection of Minolta SRT eyepiece diopters.
Since I have many bodys, and a number of diopter strengths,
I marked the back of each diopter with grey nailpolish (borrowed
from my wife) so I can determine what strength of diopter is
attached to any particular body, without having to remove it
from the camera body.

I have four of the VPN #1 (+.05), one VPN #3, and two of the VPN #4.
Interestingly, any of these seem to be a great improvement at this point.
I'm still deciding which will be the most useful, and this may change, as I
get new eyeglasses very soon. I have a number of additional SRT diopters
presently on their way to me.

Not the most exciting Minolta accessories, but as my eyes age, particularly
useful to me.
 

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Can you still use an anglefinder if you have a diopter eyepiece attached?

When I shoot handheld, I shoot at eyelevel, and I wear my glasses. When I shoot on a tripod, I tend to use an anglefinder, and the eyepiece can be adjusted to the photographer's vision.

- Murray
 
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Vanilla Creme Puffs at Schmidt's Sausage Haus in German Village. Some good German Beer, A German Bratwurst, and one of these bad boys, and I am all -good-.

Minolta SRT-101, 58mm F1.2 MC Rokkor wide-open. Eastman 5222 Double-X film. Developed in straight Microdol-X Developer. Scanned on Minolta DiImage II scanner.
 
French President François Mitterrand did not forget its Minolta when going to see 1985 Tour de France.
A video from National Institute of Audiovisual (massive french TV archives) :
http://www.ina.fr/video/CAB88034479

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Nokton48 said:
Nice early black dial SRT-101! 🙂

At the last camera show I was at, one of the dealers was lamenting about selling his 35-70mm MD Rokkor. He used it for ten years and apparently it has some very special qualities.
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Hey thanks! I just picked this kit up along with a MC 50mm 1.7. I used a chrome SRT 101 in high school and have been looking for a black one for a while now. This one is really clean. The shop told me 1/1000th and 1/500 are running a tad slow due to lack of use, and confirmed the meter is spot on using a SR43 and 1.35v adapter.

I have yet to put any film through it. But from what I have seen both the 35-70 and 50/1.7 are very nice 🙂
 
This is how I roll . . . . .

This is how I roll . . . . .

. . . . . just want to "bump" one of the best ever threads here on RFF. Peace out 😎
 
Having played around with the X-700, X-570, and X-370 then sort of abandoning them (too many other camera platforms that drew my interest), I finally picked up an SRT-101. It had a fault in the mirror mechanism, so I got another one with the MC 1.4/58. Have to put seals in it first before i can use it though. Then I'll contribute photos to this thread.

In the meantime: See post #2434 http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42442&page=98

PF
 
Nokton48 said:
Scan-150212-0003 by Nokton48, on Flickr

Vanilla Creme Puffs at Schmidt's Sausage Haus in German Village. Some good German Beer, A German Bratwurst, and one of these bad boys, and I am all -good-.

Minolta SRT-101, 58mm F1.2 MC Rokkor wide-open. Eastman 5222 Double-X film. Developed in straight Microdol-X Developer. Scanned on Minolta DiImage II scanner.
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Gotta hit that place up again if I ever get back to Ohio.

PF
 
I have finally gotten around to addressing an annoying issue with my beloved SRT-100. A piece of black light trapping material keeps coming unclipped and drops down into the film gate, producing a shadow on the film. It is an intermittent problem I cannot fix myself.

Sent several emails back and forth to John Titterton, and he says it's a common problem with early Minoltas. In fact Minolta changed the design on later cameras. Good info and so he will be fixing this one.

This camera has sentimental value to me and works beautifully otherwise.

John's email: JTCameras@aol.com
 
My favorite camera body; My Minolta SRT-100 is back from John Titterton. That was -quick-. Total cost -- $50 plus shipping. What can I say?
He is the -MAN-.

He taped the offending "light shield" to my invoice. Nice touch. Imagine that thingee periodically dropping down into the optical path (inside the mirror box) and creating a shadow on the top part of the film. What a pain. Complete CLA, all good now.
 

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