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Minolta Hi Matic F

  • 06-07-2010 6:41pm
    #1
    Effects
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,760 ✭✭✭


    Have this camera a while but only ran a couple of films through it. One came out good but the other didn't. I've founf instructions for it but there is a ring on the camera that the instructions give no details about. Just wondering if anyone here might know. It has ring that rotates as shown in the photo. Makes no difference to what I see through the viewfinder. Any ideas?

    hi1.jpg

    hi2f.jpg


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  • #2
    DaireQuinlan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,713 ✭✭✭DaireQuinlan


    It allows you to set the guide number of your flash. What happens is that as you focus closer the aperture stops down according to the GN set on that ring so it allows for sort of primitive auto flash shooting. Dunno how it's turned on though, maybe some sort of switch on the hotshoe or something ? It's almost certainly not 'on' all the time.

    Here's the complete manual ...
    http://www.scribd.com/doc/19301195/Minolta-HiMatic-F-User-Manual

    -edit- Ah yes, page 19 of that manual has the above GN description, page 16 seems to indicate that as soon as you stick a flash into the hotshoe the camera switches over to using this GN system, and a shutter speed of 1/20 sec. Which, come to think of it, is kinda slowwww. The entire thing seems a bit cumbersome, and it's a pity you can't just turn it off and use some flash auto setting or something but on the other hand, unless you have a flash in the socket it doesn't (or at least shouldn't) make any difference what you have it set to.


  • #3
    Effects
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,760 ✭✭✭Effects


    Thanks for the infio Daire, I had a feeling you would have the answer. That link gives more info that the obe I found before. I thought it might have something to do with the guide number for the flash. Just discovered the batteries are dead since I last used it so hopefully I can find a pair somewhere. I might pick up a cheapo flash from deal extreme for it, my own canon one is a small bit too big. :)

    http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/1736/hi3.jpg


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