{"id":21057,"date":"2018-12-08T10:34:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T18:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=21057"},"modified":"2018-12-08T10:34:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T18:34:33","slug":"minolta-xe-7-with-really-really-expired-fuji-hg100-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=21057","title":{"rendered":"Minolta XE-7 with Really Really expired Fuji HG100 film"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MinoltaXE7-4319\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Minolta XE-7 is one solid camera, you can see that its outer shell is made of brass where the paint has worn away.\u00a0 Brass not being know for its light weight qualities.\u00a0 But even though its a hefty camera that is offset by the feel and operation.\u00a0 Of all the cameras I have ever owned or used it has the single smoothest film advance that requires the least effort. Another nice touch is a small window that allows you to see the aperture setting from the viewfinder, this feature made its way into the later Minolta X-700 which was my first SLR. \u00a0 One drawback of its electronic shutter is that it requires batteries to operate through its range of 4 seconds to 1\/1000 second, Bulb mode can be used without batteries though.\u00a0 Fortunately it uses two easily attained LR44 batteries for power. It also has a viewfinder blind to block stray light if you are using Bulb.\u00a0 The shutter on the camera is a “CLS” or Copal Leitz which was a joint venture between the Japanese and German companies and results in a very quiet shutter that appears to be just as accurate today as it was 40 years ago. Other things that this camera has that give it almost everything you could need in an SLR is depth of field preview, exposure compensation and even the ability to do multiple exposures. \u00a0 This is done after the first exposure by sliding the lever found at the base of the film advance clockwise until a little red dot is visible.\u00a0 Then cock the shutter, the film will not have advanced and you can take the second exposure. The multiple exposure lever will return to its original place.\u00a0 You can do this repeatedly, cocking the shutter and exposing the film by moving the multiple exposure lever prior to each shutter cocking.\u00a0 So if your willing to pack around a 775gram film camera (without a lens) this is close to as good as it gets.<\/p>\n

As for the film it was some extremely expired Fuji HG100 film.\u00a0 Being around 20 years out of date I figured my best bet was to expose it 2 stops slower so I set the camera to 24ASA.\u00a0 Even then I don’t think hitting it with more light helped greatly.\u00a0 It was just fogged and had a weird colour shift.\u00a0 That’s okay I meant to do that.<\/p>\n\n\t\t