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Gear nostalgia part 4 - Minolta SRT 303 and XE
(Continued from part three) I sold off my Konica stuff and bought a black Minolta STR 303b. It had a big, bright viewfinder with a good match-needle open aperture manual metering system. This time I a choose a different lens strategy. The most popular lenses by photo amateurs was a 28, 50 and 135 mm [...]
Gear nostalgia part 3 - Konica T3 Autoreflex
(Continued from part two) The Konica Autoreflex was the first camera that offered auto-exposure with shutter speed preference. It had a bayonet mount, got good reviews and was very robustly built. Some downsides were that the shutter had a very hard sound and the viewfinder was relatively small (however big with todays DSLR standards) and [...]
Gear nostalgia part 2 - Yashica TL Electro
(Continued from part one) The Yashica came with a 50 F 2.0 lens. It featured stop down metering through the lens. Two green light diodes in the shape of arrows should both light up when the exposure was right. The metering was averaged over the whole image and the mount was again the M42.
I also [...]
Gear nostalgia part one - Porst Reflex
Many of us has used film SLRs before the advent of digital photography. This is the first chapter in a little nostalgia trip, describing cameras I have used from the mid-70s to todays DSLRs.
My first SLR, which I bought as a 16 year old boy, obsessed by photography, was a Porst Reflex, made in [...]
