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- Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:34 am
- Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
- Topic: Scotland golf trip
- Replies: 9
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Re: Scotland golf trip
Thanks for sharing your wonderful pictures. I went to St Andrews University in the '90s..... see that big grand orange-red building overlooking the 18th green, beside the clubhouse (second picture, of Swilken bridge looking up towards the 18th? Well it was called Hamilton Hall (of residence) and I l...
- Mon Jun 29, 2009 12:09 am
- Forum: History of Minolta
- Topic: Minolta ads
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10509
Re: Minolta ads
Nice.. . i like how old ads go for the *detailed blurb* approach, in contrast to nowadays where there seems to be more emphasis on visuals. I think some of these old ads, especially posters, can be quite collectable. Something like that could look nice if carefully removed (not torn!, lol) and frame...
- Sat May 16, 2009 6:50 pm
- Forum: Welcome and well met!
- Topic: Welcome to our Forums
- Replies: 59
- Views: 46264
Re: Welcome to our Forums
oh, i remember why i got the F90x now... i was impressed by the platitudes about it in the major camera magazines at the time... that was before i realized that camera reviewers in those magazines seem to have a bias for certain manufacturers (with names beginning N and C...) after i bought it I was...
- Sat May 16, 2009 2:37 am
- Forum: History of Minolta
- Topic: Minolta ads
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10509
Minolta ads
here is my scan of an old magazine ad for the Minolta 7000 from the mid-80s. :) it was a ground-breaking SLR and i think i had a childhood fantasy over it :oops: I am pretty sure i photocopied the form and sent away to Minolta for a copy of that brochure ... which i don't know whether i still have....
- Sat May 16, 2009 2:18 am
- Forum: Welcome and well met!
- Topic: Welcome to our Forums
- Replies: 59
- Views: 46264
Re: Welcome to our Forums
hello :) glad to be joining the forum... am a bit of a novice really but i've always been interested in cameras/photography always had a soft spot for Minolta as a brand... i still have a Minolta AFE2 compact which my mother bought me in the late 80s... I got a Nikon F90x in the mid-90s (i was going...