{"id":6799,"date":"2012-10-09T05:55:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T12:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=6799"},"modified":"2012-10-09T05:55:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T12:55:55","slug":"minolta-himatic-7s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=6799","title":{"rendered":"Minolta Himatic 7s"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Minolta Himatic 7s is another light tight box with a lens. It’s a bit heavy and quite noisy compared to similar cameras but the Rokkor 45mm 1:1.8 lens is a good performer. It does have the option of completely automatic exposure but I like to use it in manual mode performing the light metering with a digital camera. You might be wondering if I’m already using a camera to take light measurements why not be done with it and give up film. The simple answer is I like using these camera and framing and composing with the optical finder. I also don’t meter every scene but get a good estimate of the light and adjust from there which isn’t so different from using an external light meter I’m just getting a test shot too. I mentioned at the start about how noisy it is and it’s true of almost every operation of the camera from cocking the shutter to the release of it. It has a very sharp metalic sound, everyone and thing around you is going to know you just took a picture.<\/p>\n\n\t\t