Minolta engineers not only recognized it, but also addressed the problem by completely redesigning the hot shoe. This has happened to more than one wedding photographer that I know of back in the days of film, when you didn’t become aware of this kind of failure until after the pictures were developed.įew recognize this as being a problem. The second problem is that if you did not secure it properly (and sometimes even if you do), as you run around the flash might slip a little in the shoe mount, resulting in either no flash or horribly overexposed flash pictures. The first problem with this design is it takes between 5 to 10 seconds to mount or remove the flash and then secure it by screwing down a retaining nut. It has become problematic because as time went on, more and more electrical contacts have been added to the standard shoe mount to allow flash automation. The traditional flash mount on every other camera is based on a design that dates back to at least 1940. You don’t appreciate this unless you shoot under pressure. Brilliantly useful.Ī much-improved “hot shoe”. Pushing another button on the light meter would then tell the camera to take the picture by remote control. If this had been an ordinary camera, after taking the reading you would have to walk all the way back to the camera and manually dial in the f/stop and shutter speed that your handheld meter recommended, and then you’d press the shutter release to take the picture.īut wait! What if you could do all that without having to walk all the way back to your camera? Using Minolta’s Flashmeter IV and the rare DR-1000 data receiver, you could push a button and the exposure settings would be electronically transmitted to the camera by an Infrared data link. You take your Minolta-brand handheld light meter (hey, I told you that you were a professional!) to measure the light hitting the subject (a more accurate way to meter when everyone’s wearing black suits). Your camera is mounted on a tripod with a long telephoto lens. I can navigate through the menus, adjust the settings, everything like that just fine. When you turn the camera on, everything works fine.
I thought it would be cool to try and fix it myself and get it working again, but I dont know that much about cameras.
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Let’s say you’re a professional photographer about to take a group picture. I found my dads old Minolta Dimage A1 camera today, but it doesnt work.
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Remembering Martin Luther King Day at the Denver B.