{"id":5347,"date":"2012-03-14T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=5347"},"modified":"2012-03-13T23:33:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T06:33:39","slug":"minolta-v2-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=5347","title":{"rendered":"Minolta V2 part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This\u00a0is\u00a0one of my all time \u00a0favorite cameras, it has that certain look that defines the fixed lens rangefinder form.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-5354\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wkoopmans_MinoltaV2-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5354\" title=\"wkoopmans_MinoltaV2 (7)\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wkoopmans_MinoltaV2-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wkoopmans_MinoltaV2-7.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wkoopmans_MinoltaV2-7-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Every aspect of this camera is nicely done right down to the black band on the shutter release and film rewind that match the film advance leaver.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-5350\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wkoopmans_MinoltaV2-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5350\" title=\"wkoopmans_MinoltaV2 (3)\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wkoopmans_MinoltaV2-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wkoopmans_MinoltaV2-3.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wkoopmans_MinoltaV2-3-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-5348\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wkoopmans_MinoltaV2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5348\" title=\"wkoopmans_MinoltaV2 (1)\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wkoopmans_MinoltaV2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wkoopmans_MinoltaV2-1.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wkoopmans_MinoltaV2-1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The defining technical detail of this camera must be it&#8217;s shutter which is capable of 1\/2000 of a second.\u00a0 This was quite an achievement in 1958 with a leaf shutter.\u00a0 To reach this speed though the aperture is limited to maximum opening of\u00a0 f8.\u00a0 Both shutter and aperture control are on the lens with a small window providing the EV number for that combination.\u00a0 The same EV can be maintained will changing shutter and aperture by turning both dials together.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-5351\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wkoopmans_MinoltaV2-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5351\" title=\"wkoopmans_MinoltaV2 (4)\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wkoopmans_MinoltaV2-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wkoopmans_MinoltaV2-4.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wkoopmans_MinoltaV2-4-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The viewfinder framelines automatically adjust for close focusing and the focus patch is a nice contrasty rectangle.\u00a0 Unfortunately my viewfinder frame is slightly askew which results in crooked horizons if you adhere to it as i did with my last roll of film.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-5353\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wkoopmans_MinoltaV2-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5353\" title=\"wkoopmans_MinoltaV2 (6)\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wkoopmans_MinoltaV2-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wkoopmans_MinoltaV2-6.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wkoopmans_MinoltaV2-6-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the second part I&#8217;ll show some sample images and discuss the camera some more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This\u00a0is\u00a0one of my all time \u00a0favorite cameras, it has that certain look that defines the fixed lens rangefinder form. Every aspect of this camera is nicely done right down to the black band on the shutter release and film rewind that match the film advance leaver. The defining technical detail of this camera must be [&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":[19,64,77],"class_list":["post-5347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameras","category-photography","tag-camera","tag-film","tag-minolta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347"}],"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=5347"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5428,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347\/revisions\/5428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}