My father buyed this camera from Japan in 1983 with the rokkor 50mm 1:1.4 and a tefnon telephoto 80-200mm with macro. I have it all till now in working condition. We have taken more that 30.000 photos. It was a great camera !!!
I have enjoyed your May-nolta videos! I was smitten with many Minolta models when I first started “collecting” photographic gear 20+ years ago. Researching facts about 35mm cameras in general led me to discovering the many “firsts” for which Minolta is credited. In my opinion, it’s a fascinating history.
I had one! Nice camera, dense as a brick. Unfortunately mine had a winding issue, frames were sometimes overlapping and for some reason it would get stuck on "auto-winder mode" specifically after finishing Fujifilm film canisters (rip). Also I got into M42 mount cameras, so I sold mine a long time ago.
Nice to see you back. Hope your photography history study is going well. I have the XE-5, the X700 mps and the Dynax 7000i. Sad the brand folded. They made really good cameras and lenses. Maybe I'll get an XD-S someday. It has diopter settings which many old film cameras lack. Only released in Japan I think. I really like the bottle cap shot! Stills can be done anywhere, outside, at a cafe, a store etc. Good fun!
@@AzrielKnight Thought you might misunderstand that. What you said at the end of the A1 video at the ten min. mark: " I've been focussing more on the history of photography"
Get into the habit of watching the rewind crank when loading your film. Take up the slack if you can. If the rewind crank does not move when advancing the film you have a problem. I have not had a failure to load since I started doing this. I have the XG-M and agree it is the better choice.
A great practice that I share. In my XG-M video I did mention this I think and when it didn't move I used the rewind handle to gently see if it had "caught" on the advance side and it had. so it was "attached" but not advancing, a really strange issue I can't explain.
Another enjoyable Maynolta review. It’s interesting what you say here in regard to comparisons with the XG-M. I tried my late cousin’s XG-M for the first time (also my first encounter with a Minolta slr) about 4 years ago, around the time I started getting back into film. Shamefully I admit to not having used it a great deal since - may bad and my loss, although I’m slowly putting that to rights at the moment. As you say, it’s a lovely camera to use (although the electronics on mine are occasionally temperamental). I wonder if the XG-1 is a forerunner of the XG-M (looking at the older style name badge here), the latter picking up some refinements on the way? (Anyway, great stuff with this month of Maynolta! Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
You should really test an SRT series from Minolta, a bit older than the XG series, but very awesome. They also dont need a battery, unlike the XG series, so no blown out caps on those.
Yes, the XG-1 is perfectly average, but perfectly good. The good thing is that you can put film in it, attach the lens of your choosing, and make pictures. Yes, also, making a still-life composition takes time. It goes well with film photography. Excellent video, and I really like the way the May-nolta series is turning out.
Sounds about right! It's a solid camera, nothing special. Not spectacular. But Minolta lenses tend to be great and this would be a nice camera if it's one you have with the lenses.
I have the 70- 210 lens. My second lens. My prime lens was the Minolta 35 - 70 two step lens. Wow does that give great images. The 70c- 210..the " slide " became easy to move up and back. But it would drift with gravity. I wish all lenses were two step.
Hola acabo de adquirir la minolta xg1 pero he leido que hay que apretar eun pequeño boton metalizado para desbloquear el modo automatico pero en mi camara ese pequeño boton no funciona😢