I used Nikon for quite a few years, sold it all to get a Canon Digital Rebel, and that was my last SLR. (After Olympus, I went back to Minolta until my eyes insisted I get an autofocus SLR. And I never did get a fisheye lens for the Minolta or any of the many SLR cameras I owned over the years. The optics didn’t hold a candle to my 50mm and 100mm genuine Minolta Rokkor branded lenses. The only other lens I owned for my Minolta was a 35mm f/1.9 Vivitar wide-angle.
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The longer lens was great for portraits and candids (I was on yearbook staff), and the f/2.0 aperture plus ISO 400 Tri-X black-and-white film – pushed to ISO 600 – made it great for low light photography. I loved that lens and kept it on my camera most of the time. They had a 100mm f/2.0 Auto Rokkor marked at $44.95, and I just hoped I would have the cash for it before someone else bought it. I kept my eye on the used case at Marks Photo and saved up money from my part-time after school job. Minolta also had a very nice 16mm f/2.8 fisheye I might be able to afford someday. This was the forerunner of the multi-area metering that was to come in the mid 1980s, but Minolta introduced its CLC system with the SR T-101 in 1966. Contrast Light Compensator (CLC) they called it, and it worked. It was very comfortable in my hands, pretty easy to use, and had a great metering system designed not to be thrown of by right skies. That was in 10th grade, and that camera saw me through the rest of high school and through most of college, before I succumbed to the lure of an Olympus OM-1, but that’s a different story. The last time it came back from service, I immediately traded in everything toward a Minolta SR-T 101. He got the Leicaflex, and I think the Miranda went in for two more warranty repairs while I had it. Dad was used to Konica quality, as they used Konica Autoreflex cameras at work. The Sensomat came with a three year warranty, and it seemed to be in for repair as often as it wasn’t. He sold me his complete system, including a 105mm lens, a 3x teleconverter (not good quality), and a waist level viewfinder. It wasn’t what I wanted, and when Marks Photo has a used Leicaflex SL for sale, and Dad was ready to move on from his entry-level Miranda Sensomat SLR. My first camera was a cheap point-and-shoot 35mm camera with zone focus – you set the lens for landscape, portrait/midrange, or kind of close (maybe 3-5′). I was hooked, and I spent months looking over every brand of camera, the lenses available for them, metering systems, prices, and more while trying to figure out which system I wanted to be part of. I studied until it all began to make sense to me. Marks Photo Shop sponsored a photo equipment show at the old Pantlind Hotel (now the Amway Grand Plaza) in downtown Grand Rapids, MI. I think it was Spring 1973 that I got hooked on photography. The 6mm f/2.8 Nikkor fisheye covers 220° and weighs 11 lb.
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