
This is the smiling 'face' of a Minolta Autocord LMX. It's a medium format 6cm x 6cm film camera made sometime between 1958 and 1961 and I've borrowed it from a friend who has kindly agreed to loan it to me so that I could put a few rolls of film through it.
I've been wanting to try MF film for a while now after seeing the results on the web of photographers like Michael Kenna.
Well, I got the prints back tonight from my first two rolls of film and I was delighted to see that, despite my inexperience and the great age of the camera, they've turned out really nicely.
I'll show you some of them over the next couple of days and you can tell me how you think the photos compare to the results we get from our modern digital cameras.
Like what you see here and are interested in photographic composition?.....the blog section of my website now has a complete set of 5 articles covering my personal approach to the subject: Ian Bramham Photography - Blog
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@Hoshisato: Thanks....the first photo from it will be posted tomorrow (Saturday)
@Anna.C: Thanks Anna....I'll put the first photo from this camera up tomorrow!
@Albert Manso: Thanks Albert!
@Ian Smith: I enjoyed the experience of looking down into the viewfinder but the mirror image on the glass screen made composition extremely difficult as i continually kept moving the camera the wrong way :-)
@Curly: Yes, certainly the most difficult camera I've used by a long way!!....the view through the viewfinder is a mirror image which makes compositional corrections completely counter intuitive. Not just the left to right movement but also corrections for verticality are reversed.
@Chris: Hi Chris!....yes, that's the control for the primitive (non electric) light meter but I couldn't find any instructions on the web on how to operate it. I used my digital camera to get the light readings setting the Minolta to the same aperture and shutter speed.
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