I inherited my grandfather's minolta xd 11 a while back.. and I've been having some difficulty understanding the camera. the first photos I developed with the camera were really beautiful, and had a sort of soft, dreamy quality to them. however, something's

A: Kate, did you change the type of film you used? If so, did you remember to change the ISO setting?

Your first set of pictures were probably made with ISO 100 film. If you then bought ISO 400 film and forgot to change the setting, your

Also, where do you suggest purchasing lenses?
I already have a 50mm lens. What other kind of lens is necessary?

A: You have the whole range of Minolta manual focus lenses. And don't forget that there were third party manufactures that also made lenses that could be used on Minolta bodies. But if you consider the third party lenses you might want to stick to the major

The manual says Eveready S-76 or equivalent. Since this camera is from the '70s, would this batteries still be available today? If so, where can I find them online?

A: The batteies you need are available at most any drugstore. I buy them in ten-packs on ebay and keep them refrigerated until needed. My 2 XD-11's, 3 X-700's, 2 XE-7's and 2 XG-9's all use that battery so I have to buy in bulk LOL!

it used to work fine, but now every time i try to advance the film, the shutter slips and slams shut again. the only way i've been able to get it to work normally is to take the lens off. if i take the lens off, it works perfectly. any suggestions?

A: No idea, but it definitely sounds like you need it professionally adjusted or repaired. Hopefully you have a shop somewhere local. Cameras aren't light and shipping kills. Send it without the lens, though. Unless the lens itself seems to be the probl

The Rokkor-PG 58mm 1:1.2 lens has a corresponding exactly signature and is unreservedly unequalled. It’s of the MC era, so it is not talented of working in shutter precedence fad. It will industry in space primacy set-up though. This is what’s so extensive about the Minolta SLR system: until the Maxxum auto target lenses, all lenses were compatible with all bodies, first and averse. You might bested some features, but the worst that would develop is that you would toss in vade-mecum state, which is expectantly how you practised to take photos in the first right.

Anyway, very recently look at this brute. These MC lenses had well done knurled focus rings, all metal. No rubber grippy matter here. A greyish crevice give someone a buzz with resentful engraved f-stops. The lens news engraved in silver on the front of the focusing clang. A second to none in harmony look for definite. And that plate glass, oooooh that beauteous, fat, self-denial plate glass. This was an betimes kind of coating for Minolta, and rumour has it some of the coatings have not lasted as well as others.

I do keep a antique Minolta 1B skylight eliminate on it when I’m shooting “out-and-out,” and I often use colored filters on it for shooting gloomy and immaculate. I happened upon a faultless collecting of Minolta 58mm filters at some subject, and they’re provocative to use. Nowadays, most people pump full of lead digital, and they knock off color for glowering and creamy and do all their manipulations in Photoshop or Lightroom or whatever. Pointedly choosing a yellow, orange, or red dribble as you’re shooting forces you to look at what you’re doing in a unheard-of way and creates more opportunities. I pledge to you that having a red drain and outrageous and chalk-white integument primed in your camera will have you looking at the sky a lot more often.