As soon as I purchased my cute little Mamiya 135 EE I popped a roll of ASA 400 expired film into it and started taking photos. I took photos at the Kilbourn Park basketball court, around the house, at the Addison overpass during a community mural painting, at Lake Michigan with fisherman. I wonder if…
Today, June 23, 2012, was the Andersonville Garage Sale Day If you’re from Chicago, keep in mind the Andersonville Garage Sale day sometime in late June. Andersonville is on the north side of Chicago and bounded by Foster on the south, Bryn Mawr on the north, Ravenswood on the west, and perhaps Greenwood Street on…
Sometimes your hobbies are in perfect alignment. Sitting in the park. Watching a basketball game. Cool summer breezes. Street Basketball was my First Hobby Long before I collected cameras, long before I could quote stories about Abraham Lincoln, long before any hobby or avocation, I played basketball as a kid. Pick up basketball games are…
Today I won a camera eBay auction by a Penny It was a nice feeling. I and another bidder competed for a Minolta SRT 100x on eBay. He bid a little, I bid a little and then “felt” that he had a higher limit on the camera so I stopped bidding. I kept raising my…
I wanted to write a brief blog post to tell my visitors and readers that Matt Denton has a new address for his camera website. You’ll find Matt’s Classic Cameras incredibly useful, and fun. Who is Matt Denton? Matt has a non-photography full-time job but has spent countless hours describing used cameras for everyone at…
Visit a Cheap Antique Store and Purchase a Camera Many towns have a cheap antique store. Keep those stores alive. Find the cheap antique store in your town and buy an old camera from them. When those stores are gone, it will be a lot harder finding old SLRs and rangefinders in your town. Cheap…
My friend Vicci loaned me two cameras to test and review: a Minolta SRT Super and a Nikon FM2. If you live in Chicago and you’d like me to test a valuable camera, I’d be glad to give it a try. By the way, I’ve never even held a Leica camera. The Minolta SRT Super…
I am not a purist, I shoot with both digital and film cameras. But the question needs to be asked? Are film cameras better than digital? Can you tell the difference between 35mm film or digital photos? You decide. Choose your favorite picture. Then research the camera I used for that photo. Some photos were…
I like the feel of this 35-40 year old Minolta SLR. But then I’m a big fan of Japanese SLRs from the 1960’s and 1970’s as you can read from my Canon QL17 review and my Canon FTb review. But today I’m writing about my durable Minolta SRT 100 with its 50mm 1.7 Rokkor lens,…
This will be a longer post, a very long post. But if you enjoy a good story about a fine old camera, sit back and enjoy my blog article today about a 40+ year old Canon QL17 from Saigon. I was always mad at myself for failing to even make an eBay bid on a…