http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/ Group for manual-focus Minolta gear Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:03:54 GMT xkaes@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26177 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26177 Ted Rosenberg, the author of the Minolta 16 Guide of 1973 (yes, he is still alive) is trying to get a copy of the Minolta Miniflex. If anyone has one -- or Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:00:26 GMT http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26176 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26176 Hello from the Manual Minolta YAHOO group -- MINMAN. This message is automatically sent to every member of the YAHOO group once a month as a reminder. It is Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:56:05 GMT Renee http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26175 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26175 my mom had given me a Minolta X370 camera several years ago, she had bought it to take to England, then with the digital world it went into the closet, then my Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:20:06 GMT ljmagnuson@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26174 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26174 Which camera model is it. Care to give me the info on make, model, etc. I just inherited an old Ziess Icon Contraflex which is a 1950's manual camera. My Dad Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:28:09 GMT Renee http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26173 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26173 i have checked around here and the only classes that i can find at the local school are online digital photo classes. and the course work does not look like Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:44:56 GMT Paul Perano http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26172 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26172 I always recommend night classes at local high schools. Photography is often one of their most popular courses. I have found the night classes are a great Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:02:27 GMT Renee http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26171 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26171 thank you very much Lynn. I am having lots of trouble learning this for some reason. Renee Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:41:57 GMT ljmagnuson@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26170 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26170 Hi; That sounds like the shutter speed was too slow, not an apeture thing. The shutter speeds are usually set on the dial near the shutter button on a manual Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:39:22 GMT Renee http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26169 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26169 i posted some pictures that i took, called 2nd roll some of them have the setting (i think) i got them right- anyway when it was set up high it took a long Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:25:43 GMT Martin Seelig http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26168 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26168 renee do you have a manual? if not then the following link will take you to a pdf file of the X7A manual which is essentially the same. Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:40:45 GMT Renee http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26167 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26167 thanks martin, is what i see in the viewfinder what ends up on the film? i know i was messing with the round thingy on the camera ( you can see i have no clue Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:03:00 GMT Martin Seelig http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26166 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26166 Hello I think you might want to shoot another roll of film before you decide the camera needs servicing. Operate the camera in its automatic mode (except where Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:30:43 GMT Bryan Lundquist http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26165 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26165 Check out Garrys camera repair http://www.garryscamera.com/ as well as Terry's Camera repair http://terryscamerarepair.com/ I have had Terry do work on many Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:24:09 GMT Mary Pinkerton http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26164 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26164 There are two shutter curtains that must be in sync for the  full picture to be  seen. If you look at some of the pictures you will see rectangular slot with Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:42:00 GMT http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26163 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta-Manual-Focus/message/26163 Hello from the Manual Minolta YAHOO group -- MINMAN. This message is automatically sent to every member of the YAHOO group once a month as a reminder. It is