 Sherrie K. Miller |
Minolta 5 i want to ask about my camara I jst bought I am very very new and need all the info I can get... DID I make the right choice ? I bought a Minolta max. 5 with AF 28 - 80 F3.5-5.6(D) with zoom lense an will get more as I progress in my quest to become a photographer. any advise would be nice thank you! i want to start with landscape an wildlife shots an go up from there! and how dose 1 sell there photos? also I want to learn to develope my own film any suggestions? Sherrie
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Sherrie K. Miller |
ok here is more info on the camara, you can get with a Minolta Maxxum AF SLR camera, but you say that all SLR cameras are too big and bulky to carry around? Well, Minolta heard you. Maxxum 5 – the world’s smallest and lightest 35mm AF SLR.* It’s easy to pack, carry, and handle, so you can instantly react on your creative impulses anytime and anywhere. Plus, the Maxxum 5 houses a powerful array of high-performance features that will quickly satisfy beginner photographers and yet be valuable tools for photo hobbyists. If you want a true take-anywhere SLR, the little Maxxum 5 is the big winner. Highest performance in its class • 7-point AF system indicates focus area in use • High-speed 1/4000 sec. shutter freezes action • Continuous film advance at 3 frames per second • 14-segment metering plus ADI flash metering • Film chamber lock protects loaded film • Eye-start automation provides a split-second response • Built-in flash with wireless off-camera flash control
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John A. Lind |
Sherrie, You are going through what nearly everyone who buys a new system experiences: "Will it do what I need it to?" There's only one way to find out, all the manufacturer advertising and hype aside. Begin using film and making photographs. Whether this particular system and its strengths suits your needs will be determined by the subject material you pursue, what you visualize for the photographs you want to make, and your "shooting style" that emerges for making them as you gain experience. All the hardware does is provide capabilities. The "gray matter" between the photographer's ears makes photographs, not the camera. No system from the major manufacturers is perfect and none are seriously flawed. It's how well you exploit its strengths and work within its limitations as its user that counts. I will make one observation about "continuous mode" shooting using a winder or motor drive. This is an excellent method for burning a lot of film very, very quickly. It's also a superb method for *missing* the "decisive moment." Even a pro-grade high-speed 10 fps motor drive allows too much time between frames. It's not a substitute for skill with timing shutter release. Many of us have had to learn this the "hard way." Timing is a "learned" skill requiring anticipation of when that critical moment will occur *beforehand* and practice at capturing it. A photographer with just a little practice at this is much more accurate with timing and uses much less film with consistently higher yield. -- John
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