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Minolta XE-7 Light Meter Problem Solved
Thought I would share... I fixed my XE-7's light meter and took some pics of my donor camera that I was learning on. I'll fix that one later on as well. Here's the link to the step-wise process and a few photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/6492611...7632989580298/ Be sure to read both the main set instructions and the notes under the images. Thanks and I hope this helps someone with an XE-7. I looked and looked, but couldn't find anything, so I dug into a used one from thrift shop before fixing mine.
Craig
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This is great information. Thank you. I don't have an XE-7 but I might one of these days. I must have 15 Minoltas from the subminiatures to the neat old SLRs. I keep bidding low on Minoltas and keep winning them. I always considered Minoltas very nice cameras indeed although I was a Nikon F man for many, many years. Today it seems Minolta doesn't get the respect other brands do which is too bad except for people like me who like to buy them cheap. I don't collect old cameras, I rescue them. I'm building a darkroom so I can develop b&w film from the 50 or so cameras I have rescued -- to test them to see if they work good -- if the cost of batteries doesn't break my bank account first.
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I rescued my cameras as well from Goodwill, and the money spent was like my tithe with a return LOL. I too love Minolta's. I think they get the respect they deserve... by those that know about them. The more popular brands are Nikon and Canon only because of advertising and market share in the time Minolta was producing cameras. However, Minolta was cutting edge... "From the Mind of Minolta," and a real threat to both Nikon and Canon... so there was a campaign to shut Minolta out of the market IMHO. Most of what Minolta brought to market before the other mfg's was later adopted by Nikon and Canon into their designs, but they were a couple of years behind them, and relied on their own name recognition and sheer number of sales to give them time to catch up with Minolta. What turned me on to Minolta and the Rokkor lenses is the web site, The Rokkor Files.http://www.rokkorfiles.com/
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