Minolta SRT's -- Gotta Love 'Em.

Lots of old cameras I own need all kinds of tape to keep it all together. Especially the really older ones. I have a huge selection of tapes:)

Just back from two day trip to the underwater Aquarium in Newport Kentucky. I took my fave SRT100 with 58mm MC F1.2 lens, fully tricked out with original hood, Minolta UV filter, Eyepiece Diopter LOL, original SRT Eyecup, and TomA Silver Softie Release, with my black hairtie trick. Eight rolls of bulk loaded HP5+ rated at EI 1600. Very low contrast and low key, dramatic spotlighting here and there. 1/60 and sometimes 1/30 used exclusively. CLC metering flawless. Much more fun than shooting with Cellphone. Exposed five rolls at 1600, now how best to push two stops? Years ago I gave old Tri-X 50% more time for one stop, doubled development time 2X for two stops. Hard to overdevelop pushed film. When in doubt give it more in my book LOL. Do have some Microphen I bought a few years ago, my present go-to is D23 1:1 like the simplicity and also the results. Ideas Welcome for pushing!

Interesting fun self assignment. Challenging after all these years. Have five rolls to push to 1600 prolly in Paterson System 5, will spin five rolls together on a Unicolor Uniroller. As I did when I was seventeen years old. Minolta SRT100 was bought brand new with 55mm F1.9 MC Rokkor in 1973. An old friend
 
Nokton48 said:
I took my fave SRT100 with 58mm MC F1.2 lens, fully tricked out with original hood, Minolta UV filter, Eyepiece Diopter LOL, original SRT Eyecup, and TomA Silver Softie Release, with my black hairtie trick.
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This is a dream lens !

Nokton48 said:
Interesting fun self assignment. Challenging after all these years. Have five rolls to push to 1600 prolly in Paterson System 5, will spin five rolls together on a Unicolor Uniroller. As I did when I was seventeen years old. Minolta SRT100 was bought brand new with 55mm F1.9 MC Rokkor in 1973. An old friend
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Post some pics when you have them ready.
 
Nokton48 said:
Lots of old cameras I own need all kinds of tape to keep it all together. Especially the really older ones. I have a huge selection of tapes:)

Just back from two day trip to the underwater Aquarium in Newport Kentucky. I took my fave SRT100 with 58mm MC F1.2 lens, fully tricked out with original hood, Minolta UV filter, Eyepiece Diopter LOL, original SRT Eyecup, and TomA Silver Softie Release, with my black hairtie trick. Eight rolls of bulk loaded HP5+ rated at EI 1600. Very low contrast and low key, dramatic spotlighting here and there. 1/60 and sometimes 1/30 used exclusively. CLC metering flawless. Much more fun than shooting with Cellphone. Exposed five rolls at 1600, now how best to push two stops? Years ago I gave old Tri-X 50% more time for one stop, doubled development time 2X for two stops. Hard to overdevelop pushed film. When in doubt give it more in my book LOL. Do have some Microphen I bought a few years ago, my present go-to is D23 1:1 like the simplicity and also the results. Ideas Welcome for pushing!

Interesting fun self assignment. Challenging after all these years. Have five rolls to push to 1600 prolly in Paterson System 5, will spin five rolls together on a Unicolor Uniroller. As I did when I was seventeen years old. Minolta SRT100 was bought brand new with 55mm F1.9 MC Rokkor in 1973. An old friend
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Dan, I use HP5+ for shooting gigs occasionally, and I've been fairly happy with my results in HC -110 Dilution B @ EI 3200. 1600 is not a stretch. I may have even posted a pic or two in this thread many pages back.
Cheers,
Brett
 
Nokton48 said:
Thanks Brett!

Street Shootin SRT Bodies by Nokton48, on Flickr

The Ole Boy on the left, is what I used this last weekend for two days of shooting. Wrapped in Green Kangaroo Skin from Cameraleather :eek:
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Welcome, Dan. Ilford's data sheet for HP5+ gives times for it in HC-110 to 3200 which I used as my starting point. And you'll find a dedicated album on my Flickr for that film/EI combination with dev times. I almost invariably use 20C/68F and standard 10 seconds inversion per minute.
 
p.giannakis said:
Recently it has started giving me a lot of angst this camera. The reason is the lousy take up spool, it is so easy for the film lead to slip off it. It has happened twice already.

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Going back to this problem with the idiotic take up spool, apparently we are meant to be trimming the film leader!!! I found the manual.

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Minolta SR-M #11 by Nokton48, on Flickr

Interesting fire equipment, reminded me of Star Wars. Minolta motorized SR-M, 85mm F1.7 MC Rokkor, Yellow Minolta filter and 85mm Minolta Hood. Eastman XX movie film EI 250, processed in Legacy Mic-X straight and replenished. Shooting motorized bursts with the SRM is a treat. Movie film used to be cheap
 
I vaguely remember someone on here suggesting a place/repairer for srts. John? something maybe? Can anyone recall and if so are they still servicing cameras? Thanks.
 
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