hello welcome to another episode this time I'm gonna be talking about the
minolta SR-1s. I took this camera and I went to
Seveille with it I didn't have any plans when I brought this camera I just
thought I'm gonna shoot an episode of the street it's gonna be fun but then
walking around city yeah I thought it didn't make much sense... like, I took some
pictures and it was it was nice but it's mostly like small streets
and it was winter even though winter in Sevilla is not
really winter winter but it was kind of cloudy it was really relaxed so I
didn't feel like much stuff was happening so I thought it was much
better to just have some kind of portrait session so I asked on Instagram
if somebody could help me and Pablo was kind enough to write me back on
Instagram and said "hey I have this friend her name is Clara and I always
take pictures with her it will be really cool. would you be interested?" I was like
oh yeah, of course I am! so Pablo, Clara and I went around Sevilla taking
pictures with this camera and I also brought some Kodak film which is
supposedly a 200 ASA but you have to shoot it at 50 to make it work properly
so I was shooting at 50 with this camera with a 50 millimeter f/1.7 and at 24 f/2
and it was quite fine actually. Clara is not a professional model she's
just a funny smart girl who wants to have some pictures taken,
and Paolo is her friends so they both just offered some help and that's what
we did we had some awesome time walking around Sevilla and taking pictures it
was great here are the pictures. I'm gonna show it
to you right away but before... it was it was interesting for me the fact that
shooting around with this camera made me realize how bad I am with reflex cameras
because it's--- it's obvious that I'm so used to rangefinders. some pictures
are completely out of focus or I'm focusing on the background and I'm just
failing miserably so just... cut me some slack, dude. just don't evaluate
how awesome the focusing is or whatever just enjoy the episode and
see you at the end of it
Are you recording? Nice. We are-- We, all three of us. Clara, Pablo (behind the camera) and I...
We are in Seveille.
They kindly offered themselves for a photoshoot.
So we'll take some shots in the Patio de los Naranjos. Is that the name of this place? Don't quote me on that one.
We are not very good locals.
But we'll take some pictures and walk around Seveille.
Not through all Seveille, just some streets.
Thank you for--- What am I thanking for?
Thank you for watching.
Thank you Clara for offering help in this.
And if you want to follow her Instagram, it's:
I'll leave the link in the description, don't worry. And Pablo's Instagram is:
Cool. I'll also leave the link.
- That's it. Thanks a lot for everything. - My pleasure.
that was the episode I hope you enjoyed it this is the Minolta SR-1s.
Is it a good camera? Yes it's a fun camera it's a great camera which has no light meter
and you have to do everything yourself so what I was doing is just carrying
around my cell phone and using some free app. this is the app I'm currently using
it's called ASLightmeter and it's really easy to use and it's free so I
highly recommend it. it's a really fun camera to use there's not much to say
about it it's super simple there's just shutter speed on top of it
they go from bulb to a thousand and the aperture is up here and that's all there is to it.
there's not much to it, actually. there's no info on the viewfinder.
it's not exactly a split screen viewfinder. I don't know the name of this
I should know the name... but I don't. this camera doesn't have a split screen viewfinder...
it has one of those viewfinders where everything looks kind of
granulated and then at the center when it's in focus it looks fine
it's not the most comfortable system for focusing in the world I'm not a big fan
of this. actually, I don't like it that much. but it's not terrible
maybe you can grow accustomed to it. it's a problem for me because my eyes
are not really good so I'm using glasses (as you can probably tell), and for me
rangefinders are much easier to focus than this type of focusing view finders
but if you don't use glasses or you're used to that maybe you can be quite
comfortable, actually. it's super easy to use it looks quite
durable. it's made out of metal, mostly. the shutter is satisfying. kind of noisy,
but it gives like an old-school feeling so I like it
especially the rewinding lever is super satisfying because it just winds so easily.
I wish my Leica M3 were this easy. I don't know. it's really satisfying.
the winding knob is it's really cool. to open it you just
lift this and then just open the back and here it is works perfectly. the
the camera has a cloth shutter so when you take a picture you just wind it back and
that's how it works. it's a mixture of plastic and metal... like, this parts are
made of plastic but the camera itself is made of
I guess aluminum or metal I'm not quite sure but it feels durable.
the lens is so nice this is a Rokkor PF 50mm f/1.7 and, as you can tell by pictures...
the background is just melted. it looks awesome. gives you like a
nice sense of depth. almost like a 3d image. it's super cool, like, this lens
looks amazing and it works like a charm on this camera... so if you happen to find
this camera with this lens around on the internet (which there are several copies of)
I recommend you trying it if you're looking for a manual camera
without light meter. this camera doesn't have a hot shoe (as you can tell), but...
there are some attachments that you put right here in the viewfinder and then
you screw it and it can hold a flash, so you put the flash on top of it and then
you connect it here through the PC sync. so if you want to use your flashes with
this camera you can get one of those attachments. I don't know how
common they are, if you want to try a flash with this you might want to
purchase one that has a cold shoe, so that's a thing to remember.
As always this camera goes to one of my patrons he already has an owner because
I already did raffle... so congratulations to the winner of this camera, and if you
want to participate in the raffles I give cameras away every month I also
give away films and I give away some stuff
and add some extra content on my patreon so if you wanna be part of that maybe
you'll be interested just link in the description and you'll find all the
information you need to become my patreon and then we can all have fun
there and I guess that said I have nothing else to say I hope you have
enjoyed this episode and I will see you next week with another one
so until then just keep shooting, guys
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