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It Followed Me Home!
self | July 29, 2010 | swampsniper

Posted on 07/29/2010 8:46:17 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER

I was in my favorite thrift store last week, found this sitting in a plastic bin with a 5 dollar sticker. It had a 28mm lens on it, I found a 35-70 f2.8-4 Sigma for another 18 bucks.

I've been cleaning and testing, got it ready to roll again.

The Minolta XG-M came out in the early 80s, it has auto exposure and manual focus. It all cleaned up to about 99%. I'll shoot it some and the rest of the time it will look great on my shelf.

I can get negatives digitized to discs, it isn't very expensive.

MINOLTA XG-M

MINOLTA XG-M

MINOLTA XG-M


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; Hobbies; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 35mm; camera; photography
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To: stylecouncilor

Thanks....:)

There’s more at

http://www.GardensOfNocturne.com

[a website perpetually “in progress”...post-processing IR and messing with HDR effects takes *forever*]...LOL


101 posted on 07/30/2010 8:59:37 AM PDT by Salamander (And I think I need some rest but sleeping don't come very easy in a straight white vest.)
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To: Salamander
Thanks for the link. I think your work is soooo cool!!

It's hard to decide which one is my favorite. I love "Mourning Glories" & "The Waiting".
102 posted on 07/30/2010 9:30:22 AM PDT by stylecouncilor (What Would Jim Thompson Do?)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Very nice! I have an old Minolta (early ‘70s vintage) — all manual — that I dearly loved.... Finally gave into digital so it doesn’t get used anymore, but what a great camera.


103 posted on 07/30/2010 9:35:30 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: stylecouncilor

Thank you...:)

Oddly enough, since it’s not really a “razzle dazzle” kind of photo, I like “Closer”.

It just seemed very poignant to me.


104 posted on 07/30/2010 9:38:46 AM PDT by Salamander (And I think I need some rest but sleeping don't come very easy in a straight white vest.)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
Once upon a time, we carefully saved our money and paid hundreds of dollars for those things.

Back then, a gallon of gasoline sold at retail for much less than $1.00 ...

Mine was (and is; yes, it still works) a Canon AE1.

105 posted on 07/30/2010 9:48:20 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Excellent find. I still have my 1973 Nikon F to lug around when I’m feeling retro, though I don’t shoot much film anymore since I got my D300 a few years back. When I do, it’s with a beautiful 1955 Ricoflex TLR on Ilford 200, that I also found at a local recycle shop and talked the owner down to 10,000 yen.

Gonna pimp my shit and let y’all have a look at http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackbone


106 posted on 07/30/2010 1:52:22 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: DeFault User

Batteries are standardized. You can dust it off and get it working in a flash. No reason put off developing your skills again.


107 posted on 07/30/2010 2:10:32 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: Salamander

Wow, nice work on these. Are these scanned negs boogied up in Photoshop. I used to love taking pictures at the cemetery in the hills of Sonoma when I was wee lad. Sepulchers are so damned photogenic, aren’t they?


108 posted on 07/30/2010 2:14:13 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: raygun

Re: What do you think?

I don’t mean to be a burr in the bum, but these look like snapshots from a pocket camera.

Get your mojo working and get out there with an SLR (any will do) that makes a *K-chh* sound and a 50mm f/1.2/2.8 fixed focus lens and hone your skills.

Whatever you are using now, take it to the community center or junior college and sign up for some photo classes and you will find your composition and PoV will improve immensely in a matter of weeks.


109 posted on 07/30/2010 2:22:20 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

110 posted on 07/30/2010 9:23:44 PM PDT by raygun
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To: Sarajevo

Dunno what to tell ya. My SRT-102 never gave me prollems with 20+ sec exposures all night long (across multiple rolls); the X-370 crapped out on me repeatedly w/in course of a single roll - dead batteries. That, notwithstanding, that condition never happened in hand-held shooting environment.

Perfect example is meteor shower observing. Doesn’t matter if its Perseid or Leonid - one being colder than the other - the X-370 don’t like long term open shutter condition; at least mine don’t.


111 posted on 07/30/2010 9:31:15 PM PDT by raygun
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

“Cameras thrive on exercise.”

Then that baby will be in GOOD shape! ;o)


112 posted on 07/30/2010 11:38:25 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Remember November...I can see it from my house!)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

I think you meant fixed focal length as opposed to zoom, instead of fixed focus. Some very inexpensive cameras such as the old box cameras do have a fixed focus but one would never use them on an SLR other than a couple of real odd balls.


113 posted on 07/31/2010 7:29:27 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: yarddog

Hehe, yes, that’s correct.


114 posted on 08/01/2010 3:38:11 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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