An Album Page: An analog re-edit of a street shoot on the highly regarded Minolta X-700 and Minolta MD Rokkor-X 45mm f/2 pancake prime.
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A look back at a re-edited street shot from 2019, taken with a highly regarded Minolta X-700 35mm SLR film camera, mounted with a Minolta MD Rokkor-X 45mm f/2, a compact 'pancake' prime lens of its own renown.
The Minolta X-700, introduced in 1981, is a classic 35mm film SLR camera renowned for its versatility and user-friendly design.
The SLR camera is one of Minolta's best-selling models, featuring an innovative program mode with options for Program (P), Aperture-Priority (A), and Fully Manual, along with center-weighted TTL metering.
The camera has a shutter speed range from 4 to 1/1000th second, plus B. Metering is powered by two SR44 batteries, and it supports TTL flash at 1/60th sync.
The Minolta MD Rokkor-X 45mm f/2 lens, launched in the late 1970s as part of Minolta's MD series lenses for their SR mount cameras, is known for its excellent build, versatility on film (and mirrorless) cameras, and distinctive image character.
The lens is a 6-element in 5 groups design, with five aperture blades, has a minimum focusing distance of 0.6 meters, accepts 49mm filters, and weighs around 120 to 133 grams.
Reviews indicate that the lens is capable of creating dreamy flares and soft focus wide open, becoming sharper at smaller apertures like f/4 or f/8.
Album Images
Images were cropped and re-edited on the desktop image editor with Auto Tone Correction, Crop and Tilt Adjustment, Tone Curve, Brightness & Contrast, Gamma, Color Balance, Sharpness & Blur, and Unsharp Mask.
Minolta X-700, MD Rokkor-X 45mm f/2
While my current interest remains with the 'CCD Resurgence' genre with low-end compacts and mirrorless digitals, with its lower-cost option, it is foreseeable that I will return to (expired) film photography genre soon for the nostalgia, tangible process, unique image aesthetics, and the slow, deliberate act of shooting, which is a truly enjoyable pastime.
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