Minolta Scale Focus Camera Archives

5 Frames with a Minolta Hi-Matic G – A Joint Effort – By Peter Roberts

By Peter Roberts / January 6, 2022 / 5 frames with... / 4 Comments

I know it’s a naff way to start but I didn’t intend to buy this camera. Apart from a couple of favourites that I use on a regular basis I’ve got a waiting list of more than enough cameras sitting in the display cabinet to be tried out at least once. But an extra lens or two is a different matter. So it was while browsing you know where for Rokkor lenses that I came across it. At a very reasonable buy it now price and described as in good condition with all functions working I started to make excuses. I like Minoltas, I haven’t got a Hi-Matic of any sort, it might be useful for my partner if she’s serious about taking up film as mentioned in my last article.

Minolta Hi-Matic G – The Bare Essentials – by Cosmo Coughlin

By Cosmo Coughlin / July 13, 2021 / Scale Focus / 2 Comments

A few years ago, I went through a second-hand camera eBay phase. Unfortunately this phase coincided with my post-graduation unemployment phase, which had a drastic effect on the budget I had for such equipment. I would tend to spend £10-30 on a camera, shoot a roll of film with it, be unimpressed and then sell said camera for £10-30. Hardly a great business model. One camera though that surprised me and earned a place in my permanent collection however, was a £20 Minolta Hi-Matic G.

Minolta – Four 35mm, 1960’s Compacts – by Tobias Eriksson

I have a crush on these compact Minolta cameras manufactured in the 1960s. If one only looked at the price tag of these models they could be just crap. But actually they are complex and sometimes luxurious pieces of engineering.