{"id":15690,"date":"2015-10-03T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=15690"},"modified":"2015-10-03T10:02:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T17:02:00","slug":"minolta-freedom-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=15690","title":{"rendered":"Minolta Freedom III"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"_K3_6381\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I’m not sure what freedom you are achieving when using this camera but maybe the first two iterations were very restrictive.\u00a0 Just kidding of course it was Minolta marketing for all the automatic features of the camera: auto exposure, auto focus, auto wind auto film loading, auto Henri Cartier-Bresson (Just kidding I made the last one\u00a0up)\u00a0.\u00a0\u00a0The amount of\u00a0user control is very limited though with no exposure compensation and only the ability to force flash fill and not flash off. \u00a0The lens is a 35mm f2.8 (4 elements in 4 groups).\u00a0 The viewfinder is nice and bright and uncluttered.\u00a0 While it has a sliding lens cover I wouldn’t call it a clam shell, like an Olympus XA because it’s so large, perhaps a giant clam.\u00a0 The larger dimensions of the camera make the lens appear all the smaller in the center but it is an okay\u00a0little piece of optical gear.\u00a0 I’m refraining from calling it great because it does have soft corners and chromatic aberrations.\u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0 like the 1980’s style membrane shutter button it allows for a nice flat top plate that suits the rest of the design and materials.<\/p>\n\n\t\t