Minolta SRT 102 and Rokkor-PF 50

[David]

This SRT 102 is the most forgiving camera I have. The meter is shot, but it returns the highest percentage of in-range photos with estimated settings of any of my non-metering cameras. It's also constructed like a brick and will probably outlast me. I had a chance to use it with the Rokkor-PF 50mm lens it came with, for the first time, and some Foma 100. For kicks, I also slapped on a CPL filter, a filter type I rarely use and should use more often. The results were typically good and, as sometimes, here's the album link: https://picasaweb.google.com/102333270936007447976/SRT1021412



No one was at this bakery, so I should have stopped to take more photos of the bakery gear hanging in the windows. This would have been good from a better angle. Baking gear presents a nifty photographic challenge and, I imagine, could yield worthwhile results. Think about it: mixers, attachments, bowls, spatulas. All of these items would require deep DoFs and present opportunities for creative lighting and perspectives.


I admit to feeling weird photographing a security camera -- that's what someone does who's casing a building. But this one was interesting in that it had been placed in an old lamp housing. And that seemed nifty.


This was tough to get because it was a 1/5th exposure, hand-held. So there's a little shake in it but ultimately not so much. This was one of a number of scrolled metal panels over a closed building's glass doors.


Hard to see, but I had tried capturing the five red stars on the glass block. More interesting, the way light plays with the glass block's textures.