Minolta X-700

I have a Minolta X-7A that I love shooting, so much so that I decided I wanted another Minolta. Something a bit higher up the Minolta food chain. There were some options, the A9 is a great pro-spec Minolta, but…

Minolta A7

In my camera collection I have a standard amount of Nikon and Canon entries, leaning heavily on the side of Nikon, but then I have an even bigger collection of Olympus and Minolta. I really dig Olympus, probably my favorite…

Nikon N80

I was a reluctant admirer of 90’s auto-focus cameras. I had steeped myself in the 60’s and 70’s tea of leather and chrome, manual-everything cameras. Super manual, even a simple “program” mode was a thing for wimps. Light meters were…

Seagull 4A

I had been shooting a Holga camera here and there, it was fun, but I wanted to explore the world of medium format photography in earnest, with an actual camera, not a plastic toy. So I professed my intentions on…