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I liberated my father's old Minolta SRT-101 from my sister. She wasn't using it so I decided to claim it as my own. It started as my mother's second engagement present to my father. Initially she bought him a Nikon SLR but he wanted the Minolta. She is very proud of the fact that she spent as much on his camera as he spent on her ring.
I have shot a few rolls with it already. All shots have been with the 50mm lens so far. Most of the shots have been without the builtin light meter as I didn't have the right battery so my first 3.5 rolls are a crap shot (all from easter).
The camera is super easy to use. Compared to my Rebal XT (Canon 350D) the view finder is HUGE. It makes manual focus possible. I was recently talking to my almost sister inlaw (she will be on Saturday this week, GOOD LUCK CHRIS AND DEIDRA!) and I explained that while I think manual focus rocks I can't do it on my Rebal XT because I just can't see out of the view finder worth a damn. I can see to compose most shots (sometimes that is hard too) but I really can't tell if a shot is in fine focus. The SRT-101 is totally different. I hope to use it to get better at all the manual things. Not having zoom lenses means I have to compose my shots better. Having only a light meter and not being able to change ISO on the fly and HAVING to manually set my aperture and shutter speed and check the metering and having only 48 frames max in a roll of film should make think more about what I want rather then trying 10things figuring one will look good.
So far 3 of the rolls of film I've shot with the camera were black and white however, I did it without the benefit of a meter so I had to guess at what I thought the settings should be.
The roll of 400ISO color film currently in the camera is being shot with the benefit of a battery for the meter.
Posted by pqbon at April 16, 2007 11:39 PM