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Recently acquired SRT101 & XG-M

Started Jun 27, 2021 | Discussions thread
MikeInOr
MikeInOr Senior Member • Posts: 1,630
Re: Recently acquired SRT101 & XG-M

Those are both in beautiful shape!

The XG-M is a much newer camera and supports an aperture priority auto exposer mode (With an MD lens which you have) as well as a manual exposure mode. I would start working with the XG-M in A priority (set the aperture and the camera will set a matching shutter speed) .

The SRT-101 is a all mechanical tank and is one of the few Minoltas with a mirror lock up which was valued for astro photography where every little vibration counts. The metering in the SRT series is a needle match in the view finder exposure system. The XG-M might be a little more intuitive in A Exposure mode. The SR needle match becomes very intuitive after using it for a while though.

The SRT-101 comes from the era of MC lenses where there was no camera lens coupling for aperture priority auto exposure modes (enabeling the camera to set the aperture)... the MD lenses were introduced to add this capability to the MD camera/lens pairing. MC and MD lenses are both SR mount and can be interchanged between MC and MD era cameras but MD era cameras won't support auto exposure with an MC lens.

Both are excellent cameras! The XG-M is newer and the SRT-101 has a more robust build with no dependence on a battery for anything other than exposure metering.

P.S. The little lever on the top right of the camera is for advancing the film between taking pictures.

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