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MINOLTA 700si

Type: 35mm SLR.

Lens Mount: Minolta A-type bayonet.

Eye-Start System: AF and AE automatically activated by combination of eyepiece sensor and grip sensors.

AF System: Minolta’s TTL phase-detection system with four CCD sensors; Built-in AF illuminator activated automatically; AF illuminator range: 0.7 to 7 mAF sensitivity range: EV -1 to 18 (at ISO 100 in ambient light; Manual focus selectable.

Metering: TTL-type; 14-segment honeycomb-pattern silicon photocell (SPC); second SPC for TTL flash metering. Metering Modes: Honeycomb-pattern, center-weighted average, or spot metering; Range: Honeycomb-pattern: EV 0-20, center-weighted average: EV 0-20, spot metering EV 3-20 (ISO 100, f/1.4 lens).

Exposure modes: Programmed AE (P mode: Pa, Ps, Creative Program Control); Aperture-priority (A mode); Shutter-priority(S mode); Manual (M mode).

Built-in Flash: Guide number 12 (at ISO 100); Flash coverage for 24mm field of view; Recycling time: Approx. 2.5 sec; Preflash for red-eye reduction and remote/wireless off-camera flash control available.

Film-Speed Setting: Automatic setting for DX-coded films ISO 25-5000; Manual setting range: ISO 6-6400 (1/3-stop increments); Recommended range with flash: ISO 25-100.

Flash Compensation: +/- 3 EV (0.5 EV increments).

Exposure Compensation: +/- 3 EV (0.5 EV increments).

Exposure Bracketing: -0.5 EV, +/- 0 EV, + 0.5 EV.

Shutter: Electronically-controlled, vertical-traverse, focal-plain type; Range: 1/8000 to 30 sec., bulb; Flash sync: 1/200 sec. or slower.

Film transport: Automatic with built-in motor drive; Autoadvance to first frame; Single-frame or continuous advance; Double exposure; Frame counter in body data panel with countdown of last 9 frames.

Viewfinder: Eye-level fixed pentaprism; Field of view: 92% of vertical and 94% of horizontal; Magnification: 0.75 (with 50mm lens at infinity; Diopter: -1; Long eye-relief finder with protective glass.

Depth-of-Field preview: yes

Self-Timer: Electronic with approx. 10-sec. delay; Cancelable.

Power: 6-volt 2CR5 lithium battery.

Dimensions: 153.5 x 98.0 x 71.5mm / 6-7/16 x 3-7/8 x 2-13/16in.

Weight: 595g / 21oz. without lens and battery.

My comment:

I must admit I haven’t found any serious lapses in this camera. AF works great; For a long time I worked on Tamron’s zoom lenses and it was a little bit annoying, but since I work on Minolta’s 50mm and it’s just perfect. There’s only one problem: the metering mode change button is hidden, which makes work less comfortable.

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My name is Marcin and you will mainly know me as one of this blog editors dedicated to one of my greatest passions: PHOTOGRAPHY.

About me

I study Spanish Philology on Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. The Spanish and Catalan language and culture are my second greatest passion. That’s for the studies…

I am originally from Starachowice, a town in Gory Swietokrzyskie. “Gory” means “mountains” in English… and I will be boring but that’s my third passion. I love Tatra Mountains especially.

Blog

In this blog I will try to explain you how do I see photography and all the thing relationated with this subject. In few days I will surely write some articles about black and white, digital and traditional photography, etc. It’s good to look through someone’s eyes sometimes so I hope you understand my ideas of the greatest art which lives hard moments these days, I think, as all arts these days. I will continue this subject later.

Yes, that was a marketing trick…

My camera

Well, I have more than one, as you shoud expect… but I mainly work on Minolta 700si for making the traditional film photos and Canon PowerShot 510A - it’s not a tecnological miracle, but all depends on the photographer… - for digital photography. I also have Praktica DTL, Zenit, Fed and Cmena (last tree are Russian masterpieces). I had opportunity to work with some other cameras and I guarantee I will share my opinion about them with you.

What photography?

I am specially interested in documental photography. Yet, although I consider it the most demanding, I do not scorn other faces of the ‘art of images’. Have you ever tried to shoot a limon? Do it and tell me if the results are satisfying.

(no rewards in this contest…)

I hope you enjoy participating with me in the great adventure with photography.

Love,

Marcin

Thanks you for visiting My Photo Booth. We have decided to join Blogosphere by starting our own blog, we invite all photography lovers out there to come and contribute to My Photo Booth Blog to make if a rich and informative blog. After this rambling, I hope top post a really useful article in a few day, Marcin promised to add and article too and very soon I hope Piotrek too will join the bloggers of My Photo Booth Blog.

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