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As I’ve mentioned in the past, I want to make sure that I track good camera repair people so I list them here.

I have seen many posts referring to the repairs made by John Titterington on Minolta cameras. Though he apparently repairs several brands.

I don’t know him. I haven’t used him, but I haven’t seen anything negative about him. And most importantly, he restores Minolta cameras.

So, if you need a repair to a camera, you might check him out.

Also, here is a link to his auctions of restored cameras on ebay. He usually has some nice looking cameras there.

John Titterington’s Cameras on Ebay

Here’s a copy of his blurb on ebay:

John Titterington has been repairing and selling fine photographic equipment in the Kansas City area since 1976. He specializes in refurbishing older Canon, Minolta, Nikon, Olympus and Pentax single lens reflex cameras.

If you are interested in getting your camera repaired you can reach him at J T Camera@aol.com

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I don’t have any Minolta SRTs, just XD-11 and X700, so I haven’t tried this for myself. But this link is to the article on Rokkorfiles so it’s probably good.

So anyway, if you find that your metering is inaccurate on your SRT, it might be that you’re using a modern 1.5V battery in a camera designed for 1.35V. This is a simple looking electronic conversion inside the camera body.

How to convert a Minolta SRT from Mercury Cells to modern Silver Cells

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Here’s a site, http://digitalrokkor.altervista.org/ that explains how to use those Minolta lenses that we horde on newer Canon digital bodies.

Unfortunately the site seems to be a little dated as far as the bodies they cover, but it does show the conversion necessary. This is really interesting stuff.

While I’m at it, there is also a flickr group devoted to this, http://www.flickr.com/groups/md-eos/

EOS bodies
Minolta Rokkor Lenses