{"id":2986,"date":"2011-05-13T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=2986"},"modified":"2011-05-12T23:29:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T06:29:56","slug":"the-danger-with-old-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=2986","title":{"rendered":"The danger with old cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No not that the lenses were made with radioactive isotopes, it&#8217;s just that if you think you might want to capture something critical, and when don&#8217;t you? \u00a0The question is can you really rely on them?\u00a0\u00a0 I ran a roll of cheap film through this Minolta Himatic C and found that all the images had this faded spot in the lower right.\u00a0 No matter how much I look at the lens from either side I can&#8217;t see what caused this.\u00a0 It must be a separation of some lens elements because it&#8217;s too subtle to detect, particularly at 1\/60 second (There is no bulb setting).\u00a0 The good news for me is that the pictures I took weren&#8217;t critical and are only reference material.\u00a0 I have several versions of the Himatic: E,F,G and this C and as far as design goes this is the best.\u00a0 I really like that the lens collapses into the body and that you have two shutter speeds\u00a0 1\/30 and 1\/250 indicated by a cloud and a sun respectively.\u00a0 The aperture is automatic but it does show in the viewfinder along with the focus indication in the form of four symbols of distance.\u00a0 So did I learn my lesson about old cameras, no not really.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignright size-full wp-image-2987\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Minolta_HiC_April_2011_009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2987\" title=\"Minolta_HiC_April_2011_009\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Minolta_HiC_April_2011_009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Minolta_HiC_April_2011_009.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Minolta_HiC_April_2011_009-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignright size-full wp-image-2992\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/K7_6612.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2992\" title=\"_K7_6612\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/K7_6612.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/K7_6612.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/K7_6612-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"frame-outer  alignright size-full wp-image-2993\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/K7_6611.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2993\" title=\"_K7_6611\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/K7_6611.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/K7_6611.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/K7_6611-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No not that the lenses were made with radioactive isotopes, it&#8217;s just that if you think you might want to capture something critical, and when don&#8217;t you? \u00a0The question is can you really rely on them?\u00a0\u00a0 I ran a roll of cheap film through this Minolta Himatic C and found that all the images had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,6],"tags":[366,77],"class_list":["post-2986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameras","category-photography","tag-cameras","tag-minolta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3104,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions\/3104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}