![]() I liken it to my Contax G with 45mm that I bought for $200 or so. ![]() The Minoltas? I’ve seen SRT’s with 50mm Rokkors for $20 to $40! Weird. A Nikon F or Canon AE with 50mm is about $250+ for nice examples. Why they never took off for collectors and manual camera aficionados is beyond me. And comparing prices between the original Canon A’s and Nikon F’s are like night and day. But the one thing about these cameras,….maybe a 60’s thing,…they were built like tanks. The SRT series was manufactured for 15 years, and had many variations. When Men were Men, and Cameras were Metal (not the Nikon rabbit ears? Oh, well) while their older lenses did still fit and work, they required the photographer to stop down for metering. All the lenses incorporated a lever that communicated the aperture of the lens to the camera body. But, in fact,…the 60’s Minolta was the ‘bee’s knees’ at the time. ![]() As a Nikon guy I’d like to say it was Nikon. This was also when they introduced the MC line (“meter coupled”). This meant that the meter reading in the viewfinder was always clear and bright. Where other manufacturers were struggling with systems where the photographer would have to stop the lens down to check the metering, the Minolta SRT 101 enabled metering to be conducted with the lens wide open. The Minolta SRT Series of cameras launched in 1966 and was the first time Minolta had released a camera with through the lens metering that, unlike its competitors, did this at full aperture! This is why photographers insisted the Minolta’s had the brightest viewfinders.
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