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"Puff the magic dragon" gives away your age. I love puffins. Amazingly, such heavy stocky birds with relatively small wings can fly and migrate distances. They still survive and multiply despite predation by man, fish, and foxes over millenniums. They breed and multiply in zoos readily. Looking at all these sea birds, I can imagine […]
Few Puffin photos. We got lucky as we were told the Puffins migrated a week before. But then we had to be the Puffin chasers as someone told us about few Puffins still being there at the lighthouse of Dyrholeay.Statistics: Posted by sury — Wed Dec 06, 2023 9:03 am
You made wonderful images. I hope the volcanic activity won't damage these areas. Thanks for posting your images.I hope so too, Fotogeorge. The activity started almost a month after I returned.SuryStatistics: Posted by sury — Wed Dec 06, 2023 1:03 am
Au contraire, Sig. It was sunny on the day I landed and the on the day I left. It was raining, cloudy and gloomy during the entire trip.On the day, I arrived, my Sony A99M2 bricked. I had luckily A77M2 with me as a backup. That changed my entire strategy for landscape photography.And then I […]
You made wonderful images. I hope the volcanic activity won't damage these areas. Thanks for posting your images.Statistics: Posted by Fotogeorge — Tue Dec 05, 2023 9:09 pm
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Great post. I grew up with Minolta, first one was a SRT100-something model aged 6 (thx to my mom), followed by XG-2/XD-7 with the f1.4/50mm (first one still usable, second lost) which were very exiting for nightly sky shots and ideal to cope with the basics. After a short period of 5xi with the very limited Minolta 28-80 kit tube (forceful terminated by robbery) I ended up with my beloved 9xi (2nd hand in 2001). Just perfect balance and weight. The one thing I miss is the focusing screen with split screen of the old models where you can almost fumble for the focus. The missing flash is another point at private parties.
Now the combination of 9xi with Kodak EliteII or Elitechrome and Nikon ED-40 has become some sort of unhandy and time-consuming and it’s time for a new Alpha. 700 maybe, or 350, not answered jet.
Nice post. However, I’m not sure where people are getting that Nikon has a camera with a shutter speed greater than 1/12000th of a second. I believe Minolta still holds the crown for that, at least in a traditional film SLR.
Even the Nikon F6, which is very high spec indeed, has only 1/8000th of a second shutter speed.
I have had a copy of this poster for about six years and never noticed that little alpha symbol on the the Dynax series. It was only with the latest edition of Photoworld that I realised that Dynax/Maxxum cameras had another designation.
Let us all hope that Sony continue to do well with this line, and that the Omega presaged by my user name is not reached for some time, as I have always considered that Minolta have produced some of the most innovative and useable cameras of recent times. This is why I began with the still useable SRT101s, in 1968 there was no contest – well featured and with very good for its day lightmetering, bayonet lens mount and good handling with a nice solid feel (unlike recent generations I could add) and a more affordable (only just on my service pay) price.
The Nikon claim regarding shutter speed simply isn’t true. Nikon recently put out a digital camera, J1, which claims 1/16000th.
The Minolta Alpha/Maxxum 9 has the highest shutter speed of any 35mm SLR ever produced.
I’ve seen the original poster and it is great to have it reproduced here. An amazing history. I wonder why they left out the X-9 which I believe was the last manual focus SLR design. Andy
[…] dit dan toch een topic over innovatie in de fotografie wordt, laat me dit dan ook nog toevoegen : Minolta history – 7 decades De AF-pionierswerk van Minolta was er trouwens de oorzaak van dat ik ooit met Minolta gestart ben […]
Great post. I grew up with Minolta, first one was a SRT100-something model aged 6 (thx to my mom), followed by XG-2/XD-7 with the f1.4/50mm (first one still usable, second lost) which were very exiting for nightly sky shots and ideal to cope with the basics. After a short period of 5xi with the very limited Minolta 28-80 kit tube (forceful terminated by robbery) I ended up with my beloved 9xi (2nd hand in 2001). Just perfect balance and weight. The one thing I miss is the focusing screen with split screen of the old models where you can almost fumble for the focus. The missing flash is another point at private parties.
Now the combination of 9xi with Kodak EliteII or Elitechrome and Nikon ED-40 has become some sort of unhandy and time-consuming and it’s time for a new Alpha. 700 maybe, or 350, not answered jet.
Nice post. However, I’m not sure where people are getting that Nikon has a camera with a shutter speed greater than 1/12000th of a second. I believe Minolta still holds the crown for that, at least in a traditional film SLR.
Even the Nikon F6, which is very high spec indeed, has only 1/8000th of a second shutter speed.
Jed
I have had a copy of this poster for about six years and never noticed that little alpha symbol on the the Dynax series. It was only with the latest edition of Photoworld that I realised that Dynax/Maxxum cameras had another designation.
Let us all hope that Sony continue to do well with this line, and that the Omega presaged by my user name is not reached for some time, as I have always considered that Minolta have produced some of the most innovative and useable cameras of recent times. This is why I began with the still useable SRT101s, in 1968 there was no contest – well featured and with very good for its day lightmetering, bayonet lens mount and good handling with a nice solid feel (unlike recent generations I could add) and a more affordable (only just on my service pay) price.
The Dynax 9 does not offer shutter speeds up to 1/16.000th. Just 1/12.000th.
Corrected – thanks. Nikon’s shutter shortly afterwards went to 1/16,000th.
The Nikon claim regarding shutter speed simply isn’t true. Nikon recently put out a digital camera, J1, which claims 1/16000th.
The Minolta Alpha/Maxxum 9 has the highest shutter speed of any 35mm SLR ever produced.
I’ve seen the original poster and it is great to have it reproduced here. An amazing history. I wonder why they left out the X-9 which I believe was the last manual focus SLR design. Andy
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