{"id":2221,"date":"2014-05-28T21:15:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T18:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9v.lt\/blog\/?p=2221"},"modified":"2023-01-30T23:04:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T21:04:44","slug":"photos-minolta-xg2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/9v.lt\/blog\/photos-minolta-xg2\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos with Minolta XG2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh hello. So this month I received another antique photocamera from a friend to try it out since he doesn’t need it anymore. This time it was “Minolta XG2<\/a>“. The Minolta XG cameras are 35mm SLRs of the Minolta SR system, sold from 1977 to 1984.
\nSo I went out again in different times to snap some cool pictures of around where I live. Tried not to do the same shots as I did with previous cameras, so I went the other direction.
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\nI must say, this camera feels nice but it’s half-electronic. It needs a battery to operate, compared to my dad’s “Zenit ET” which is fully mechanical, and that is a downside. However the battery makes this camera capable of longer and shorter exposure times than Zenit.
\nI receive the camera with a wide-angle lens, but I only used it once, because it’s not for landscape pictures :)
\nGood for me that Minolta accepts Zenit lenses, so I used a portrait lens.
\nFor picture quality… I’d say Zenit makes better pictures. Minolta ones blurs stuff around a focused point too much and not equally, but Minolta makes it easier to focus the view with a weird pyramid-like focusing view, so you can see even the slightest miss-measure.
\nMinolta also doesn’t have an exponometer, Zenit has one built in. Had to use an external one…<\/p>\n

Well, anyway, take a look at these pictures, I think they turned out to be great :)
\nFor one I found another Fujifilm photo shop that develop negatives and this time they did a fine job, no shots were ruined. I wish I had found them earlier… :\/<\/p>\n

Here are the photos:<\/p>\n

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This one was taken with a wide-angle lens:<\/p>\n

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And here is the same valley but the images are a week (or so) apart:<\/p>\n

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And this is the camera I used, with a wide-angle lens:<\/p>\n

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