Re: Teach your Children well
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Tord S Eriksson wrote:
joelbolden wrote:
Hike Pics wrote:
Great shot of future science majors
I recently lost out on a 7xi auction. The only "xi" series body I have is an SPxi, but I haven't shot it yet. The Lomo film looks good. What are your thoughts on it? Did Lomo process it?
Lomography makes some really interesting films, they have a website www.lomography.com. I like the lomo 100 because it does capture brilliant colors, and also because it's reasonably priced. Lomography doesn't do processing. I get mine done at https://Thedarkroom.com. They've do all sorts of film and have been for 40 years.
Thanks for the info! Been thinking of getting a Minox 35 EL, again, or something similar, like the bigger and heavier Rollie 35.
Hello Tord!
Some time ago I was searching for a compact fixed lens film camera. I got the opportunity to compare 4 cameras: the Olympus XA, the Minolta AF-C, the Minox PL and the Olympus AF-1. All 4 cameras were loaded with Kodak Gold 200 and pointed simultaniously at the same objects (mostly at infinity to avoid focus issues). The films were developted and printed at a Kodak lab. The one camera, out of those 4, that constantly gave the best exposure, the most natural colours and the sharpest pictures, was the Minolta AF-C, which I then bought and always carried with me, either in my shirt pocket (without the flash) or in my jacket pocket. During the next 20 years of use, the camera got quite scratched up and rough around the edges, but it always gave me correctly exposed and sharp Kodachrome 25 and/or Fujichrome Sensia 100 slides. I retired the AF-C only because I went digital.
The lens in the Minolta AF-C is a 35mm 2,8 and has 6 lens elements and internal focus. The longest shutter speed the camera gave me was 4 seconds. The ASA scale: 25 - 400 (the later models: 25 - 1000). The flash takes two AA batteries. Guide number: 12 at 100 ASA. The flash recycling time is less than 2 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OT7pRI_xBo
Or maybe you will find the Minolta TC-1 interesting?
https://www.analogakameror.se/tc-1.html
https://www.35mmc.com/27/09/2014/minolta-tc-1-eccentric-beauty/
Regards