{"id":374,"date":"2009-06-11T02:10:38","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T02:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/?p=374"},"modified":"2014-02-09T18:44:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T00:44:41","slug":"photography-site-of-the-day-rokkor-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/photography-site-of-the-day-rokkor-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography Site of the Day – The Rokkor Files"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve never mentioned it here. It never came up before, but I’m a Minolta lover.<\/p>\n

The Minolta X-700 was the first camera I purchased once I got out of high school and didn’t have access to the Pentax cameras I first used. It was a beauty. It had a very nice, bright Acute-Matte screen. Good feel. Very nice glass. It wasn’t long before I just instinctively knew how to spin the f-stop ring and the shutter speed dial. It was and is still a part of me.<\/p>\n

I still have that X-700 and I still love it. I’ve taken untold thousands of pictures on it without really any problems. I think I finally may have a scratch on my pressure plate and I don’t know how I did it. So, I’m checking out brand new (to me) 20-30 year old Minolta bodies to add to the collection. My local photo store doesn’t have these very often. Of course, I’ve been to ebay. What an amazing place to shop.<\/p>\n

Anyway, to make a long story longer, I had to spend a few hours reading Minolta information a couple nights ago. I ended up on The Rokkor Files, www.rokkorfiles.com<\/a> and realized I had never written about it. I love this site.<\/p>\n

So what’s so great about it. First, it was built by someone with a love for Minolta. (Sadly, it seems he converted most of his gear to digital for his wedding photography business, but that’s another matter.)<\/p>\n

Secondly, it is a fantastic resource. It has a guide to all the manual focus Minolta cameras, the lenses, accessories, advertising, and technical reports. There are links to purchase manuals for most Minolta photography equipment. It also has a brief but good links page. There are articles from Dick Sullivan’s SRT Resources. And if that isn’t enough, there is even a downloadable Minolta font.<\/p>\n

So if you have a Minolta manual focus film camera, this is a great resource. If you don’t have a Minolta camera, why not? Get one. Like all film cameras these days, prices are down. Quality is extremely high. This is a great time to be picking up cameras you might have never owned. I have my eye on that cute little number over there. No her size isn’t 36-24-36. It’s XD11. And I think she’s looking at me.<\/p>\n

Classic Minolta 35mm SLRs<\/a><\/p>\n

Minolta 35mm SLR Lenses<\/a><\/p>\n

Minolta Rangefinders<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve never mentioned it here. It never came up before, but I’m a Minolta lover. The Minolta X-700 was the first camera I purchased once I got out of high school and didn’t have access to the Pentax cameras I first used. It was a beauty. It had a very nice, bright Acute-Matte screen. Good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17,54,5],"tags":[100,105],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera-collecting","category-classic-cameras","category-minolta","category-online-resources","tag-minolta","tag-pentax"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1667,"href":"http:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/1667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/365cameras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}