First time for everything. Months ago a box arrived from Analogue Wonderland. Inside said box were a number of films. One of which was a 36 exposure roll of Kodak Portra 800.
I had never shot it before and had no idea what to expect. I used the hashtag in Flickr and Instagram and saw a lot of low light portraits illuminated with some street lighting or neon lit windows for background.
This is a comparison review of two of Minolta’s last film SLRs, separated by only 3 years and aimed, for the most part at the same audience. These were fully featured SLRs with good photographer-oriented specifications, but built to a budget. They are the Dynax 5 & Dynax 60 (aka α-5 & α-70 / Maxxum 5 & Maxxum 70)
I’ve had the Minolta Dynax 5 for a few months now and seeing that it was capable of a shutter speed up to 30 seconds I was intrigued by what could be achieved. So I loaded a roll of Kodak ColorPlus (I really love this film), picked up my tripod and made my way to central London.
