{"id":8409,"date":"2013-04-30T18:56:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T01:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=8409"},"modified":"2013-04-30T18:56:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T01:56:12","slug":"minolta-uniomat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=8409","title":{"rendered":"Minolta Uniomat"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"_K7_9228\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I love when cameras exceed\u00a0my expectations.\u00a0 You might, like me, think that a camera from 1960 with a programmed\u00a0shutter and aperture would be questionable,\u00a0 not in this case though.\u00a0 The Minolta Uniomat\u00a0has a selenium meter just bellow the shutter button\u00a0that moves a galvanometer\u00a0on the top plate. If you adjust the exposure ring around the lens it moves an arm also in the window with the galvanometer needle, when\u00a0the arm and the needle\u00a0match that is the suggested setting for the scene.\u00a0When adjusting the camera like this you actually have no independent control over the shutter and aperture it follows a set program line. I’ve created this handy little chart which does actually give an indication of the aperture and shutter speed for any EV setting.<\/p>\n

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

You can see in the\u00a0pictures where I allowed direct sunlight to reach the lens that the images are quite washed out, I think quite a bit of this came from the original uncoated Minolta filter that I left on for the testing.<\/p>\n\n\t\t