Kalimar KX 5000 No. 2

I got home today and there was a package waiting by my door. It was a Kalimar KX 5000 camera I bought from KEH Camera and it's like new! Actually, I think it is new. It's the complete kit except for the lens. I think it was only opened, the lens was removed and it was put back in the plastic bag. The kit featured the original box, a leather case, new batteries, a body cap and a neck strap, plus the camera body. It is somewhat of a clone of the Minolta X-300s/X-370n. I think the styling looks better than the Minoltas. Originally, it came with the lens pictured, but this is the lens from my other KX 5000, just for the beauty shot. And when I unboxed it, I got to studying it and learned something about the camera I hadn't known. I also have a Kalimar KX 7000 and wondered what the difference was between the KX 5000 and the KX 7000. Now I know. The KX 5000 is all manual, while the KX 7000 has an automatic aperture-preferred setting in addition to full manual. I had never used the automatic setting on my original KX 5000, of course if I had tried to, I would have found it that it didn't have one. 99.9% of the time, I use my cameras on manual. Especially all my Minolta SLRs and the Chinese-made clones. Taken with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77v on August 3rd, 2021.

Located in the heart of my town’s downtown area, this is the local flower shop. The sign in the window says "OPEN," but it was almost midnight on Sunday. Camera: Kalimar KX 5000 No. 2 (Minolta X-300s/X-370n clone) Lens: Kalimar MC Auto Zoom 35-70mm, f/3.5 Film: Kodak Ultramax 400 Shooting Program: Manual (no metered mode) Aperture: f/11 Shutter Speed: “B” (bulb) 15 seconds Date: August 7th, 2022 11.07 p.m. Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing Chemicals: Unicolor C-41 Water pre-soak: 1 minute at 102 degrees Developer: 3 mins. and 30 secs. at 102 degrees Water rinse: 2 minutes (to keep chemicals clean) Blix: 6 minutes and 30 secs. at 102 degrees Water rinse: 2 minutes at approx. 100 degrees Stabilizer: 1 minute at room temperature Water rinse: 2 minutes Kalimar KX-5000-2 Kodak U-Max 400 01ff