It was originally based around a selection of three 35 mm single-lens reflex (SLR) bodies, the 5000, 70.
The name Dynax was introduced later with the "i" cameras, the second generation of Minolta A-mount camera. In Europe, early Minolta A-mount cameras were initially identified by a 4 digit number followed by AF. The Minolta A-mount system was at first marketed as Maxxum in North America and α (Alpha) in Japan and the rest of Asia. The mount is now used by Sony, who bought the SLR camera division from Konica Minolta, Konica and Minolta having merged a few years before.
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44.97 mm, than the older SR-mount and had a longer flange focal distance making old manual lenses incompatible with the new system. The system used a lens mount called A-mount, with a flange focal distance 44.50 mm, one millimeter longer, 43.5 mm, than the previous SR mount from 1958. I even managed to get a dinosaur foot in there.The Minolta A-mount camera system was a line of photographic equipment from Minolta introduced in 1985 with the world's first integrated autofocus system in the camera body with interchangeable lenses. In the end, I think the test film shows my personality quite well. You are not supposed to show your face for this challenge, but I am a little off today ? Right now I am all about walks, listing to audiobooks in my car, and birds. Some of the photos are from the 52-week challenge, this week was to tell about me. So I tried to take a selfie by first focusing on my hand then swapping the camera to my hand. I am always putting photos of other people on my blog, but rarely myself. Even though this review is a little depressing, I most certainly am not.
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I suggest looking at the photos in the full screen viewer by clicking on them as the new WordPress gallery crops the images.Īnd there is me looking a little sad, totally posed. So each time I open it, dust moves around and onto the film.Īnyway here is my test roll. At the moment it is next to my bedroom door. I am also having a little trouble with hairs and dust. I am not taking to Ilfosol 3 at all, so when I run out of it, I think I will try another kind of developer. When I finally did develop the film, it also seemed a little off. Then again, I also think the weather had something to do with that. I want to like it, I want to love it, but I just felt a ‘little’ underwhelmed. While using the camera I felt everything was ok, but maybe a ‘little’ off. My example’s shutter release seemed a ‘little’ sensitive too.
I also found the viewfinder a ‘little’ bit dull and the information on the right a ‘little’ bit hard to see. In manual mode, the viewfinder gives no information at all, not even a suggested setting, just dullness…like the weather. There is aperture priority or manual modes, no speed priority mode. You can find all the French technical details you might ever need here. I love the look of the camera, a classic look. None of this has anything to do with this camera from 1977. In the end, I even took a couple of selfies and processed it with a couple of shots left untaken. It took me ages to get through this roll of film. If the weather can’t be bothered, then neither can I. I don’t mind storms, fierce clouds, heavy rain, but dull and grey seems to affect my moods. This time the lights lit up as they should so I popped in some Street Candy 400 and since the day the camera arrived, the clouds loomed and stayed. Please excuse the photos, it is cold and rainy outside and as you will read I am feeling a little lethargic. Then I found a body for sale, no lenses, no manual. I ended up sending the body to an internet contact who needed a focusing screen from a Minolta. It was an “as is” buy and nothing I did would make the batteries power up the camera. I bought one example on eBay which came with 3 lenses, a manual and an alternative brochure.
Me being me…I could not let it go and I wanted the camera portrayed inside the pages. Neither one of us could remember ever having owned the camera. And in one of the folders, I found a brochure for this camera. I was sorting out my father’s filing cabinet, bills and certificates and the like. I bought this camera for a stupid reason really.