My Minoltas

This camera, along with the fabulous f/1.2 lens, matching flash and winder was the first really good, new camera I ever bought. I got it in early 1978 and it's still going strong. And it's still an important piece in my photographic arsenal.

A shot of my Minolta XD11 with the Minolta MD 28-70mm zoom lens on it. Camera: Minolta SRT-101 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm F/1.2 lens Film: Fuji Film Neopan 100 Acros 35mm black and white Aperture: F/16 Shutter Speed: 60 secs. Date: April 5th, 2014, 11.59 p.m. Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing chemicals at 68 degrees: Developer: Ilford ID-11 - 10 minutes Stop Bath: Ilford Ilfostop - 1 minute Rinse: Water - 1 minute Fixer: Ilford Hypam - 7 minutes Rinse: Water - 5 minutes Minolta SRT101 Acros 30if

A picture of my Minolta XG1, which I've had since 2006. It was originally released by Minolta in 1979.

This is another one of my Minolta SLR's I picked up a couple years ago.

A little Minolta point and shoot I picked up for a dollar or two most likely.

This is a sturdy Minolta SRT-101 I picked up used and got just for the express purpose of having a camera that will use my Minolta lenses and work manually when the batteries all fail at the same time on my other two Minolta 35mm SLR's. (Which just happened a week or so ago!)

I picked this up from an old school mate of mine. It came with two lenses, flash, camera bag and all the original manuals. Plus, it's a Minolta and it works great!

A great little pocket 110 camera from Minolta. It has a glass lens and takes excellent pictures.

Another shot of my little point and shoot 35mm zoom camera. Since it's branded "Konica Minolta," it was one of the last film cameras they made. Who knows, it could be the very last one they made.

My new (used) camera came in the mail today! It was an eBay purchase and I picked it up for only $7.99. It's like new! There's a fair and car show this weekend, so looks like I'll get to try it out soon. I bought it for sentimental reasons. I've always been a Minolta man and when I heard they were going out of business in 2006, it broke my heart. Mind you, this was also just after I had purchased the last-ever camera they made, a Konica Minolta Maxxum 5D DSLR. I bought it and then they went out of business a couple weeks later. But, seeing as how Konica and Minolta were only in business together for a couple years, this had to be one of the last film cameras they made, so that's why I picked it up. Fortunately, I've got some Konica Minolta film to run through it.